Dr. Michael Anderson is part of the urban Indigenous community in Tkaronto/Toronto. He is Mohawk (Bear Clan) and mixed European ancestry with family roots in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. He practices surgical oncology and palliative care medicine. He serves as the Strategic Lead for the Indigenous Health Program at the University Health Network and is also the Medical Director at Inner City Health Associates (Toronto), an agency providing healthcare to vulnerable and unhoused people in Toronto. He is a senior researcher at the Waakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (U of T) and a UHN Wilson Centre Scholar. He previously served as an Indigenous Cancer Lead and a Surgical Oncology Lead at Cancer Care Ontario.