University of Manitoba President Michael Benarroch in conversation with Vice-Dean of Indigenous Health, Social Justice and Anti-Racism at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, and Doctors Manitoba 2022 “Physician of the Year” Dr. Marcia Anderson. Together, they’ll discuss how the University of Manitoba can further ground medical education in anti-racist practices and provide greater health equity for Canada’s Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities.

About the host:
Michael Benarroch became President of the University of Manitoba on July 1, 2020. Dr. Benarroch is
a Manitoban and former Dean of the I.H. Asper School of Business (2011-2017). He returns to Winnipeg where he maintains strong community-wide connections and a lifelong dedication to transformative higher education. His career includes serving as Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at Toronto Metropolitan University (2017-2020), acting as the institution’s chief academic and operating officer as well as a tenured professor in the department of Economics, Faculty of Arts. He co-chaired Toronto Metropolitan University's Truth and Reconciliation Implementation Committee and is an active advocate for the advancement of Indigenous engagement and reconciliation.

About the guest:
Marcia Anderson, MD is Cree-Anishinaabe and grew up in the North End of Winnipeg. She has family
roots in the Norway House Cree Nation and Peguis First Nation in Manitoba.

She is a medical officer of health for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, a past president of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada and past chair of the Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress. Since 2017, she has served as executive director, Indigenous Academic Affairs, Ongomiizwin-Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing. She also serves as chair of the Indigenous Health Network for the Association of Faculties of Medicine (AFMC), which prepared the Joint Commitment to Action on Indigenous Health report, approved by the AFMC board in May 2019.

Most recently, she was named as one of eight winners of the 2022 Doctors Manitoba Awards,all of whom are connected to the Max Rady College of Medicine.

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About the University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba is western Canada’s first university, Manitoba's only research-intensive university, is located on original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation.