Dr. Ryan Giroux was nominated by the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada (IPAC) to serve as a Director-at-large (Indigenous perspective) on the CaRMS Board.
Ryan is a proud member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. His paternal family is Métis with roots in Fort Chipweyan, Alberta, and he has mixed European heritage on his mother’s side. He grew up on Treaty 6 and 8 land in Athabasca, Alberta, and now resides in Toronto where he works as General Paediatrician. He works primarily with urban Indigenous families and refugee/newcomer families at St. Michael’s Hospital and Inner City Health Associates.
Ryan is an Indigenous Educator at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, is the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s PGME Indigenous Health Lead, and is the Co-Chair of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Health Committee for the Canadian Paediatric Society.
