Dr. Ryan Giroux (he/him) is a Pediatrician working at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Inner City Health Associates in Toronto, and is one of two Indigenous Educators at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is Métis from the Métis Nation of Alberta. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology in Edmonton prior to completing medical school and residency at the University of Toronto. His research has focused on the intersection between social determinants of health and respiratory disease, specifically TB in children. His clinical practice focuses on urban Indigenous families, and refugees/newcomers to Canada.