Marcus Greatheart MD, MSW, RSW is a community-based social worker, radical therapist and resident physician. In the early 1990s he co-founded Canada's first youth-for-youth AIDS service organization and went on to specialize in LGBT health and HIV education. His graduate research for a Master of Social Work at the University of British Columbia led to the publication of Transforming Practice: Life Stories of Transgender Men that Change How Health Providers Work (2013, Ethica Press).
Together with Robert Birch, a community health activist and doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria, Greatheart co-edited The Contemporary HIV Zeitgeist from the series Annals of Gay Sexuality (2015, Ethica Press).
Greatheart is currently completing his specialty training in Family Medicine in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia.