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Gabor Maté

1944 - Today

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Gabor Maté ( GAH-bor MAH-tay; born January 1944) is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development, trauma, and potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health, including autoimmune disease, cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and addictions. Maté's approach to addiction focuses on the trauma his patients have suffered and looks to address this in their recovery. In his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Maté discusses the types of trauma suffered by persons with substance use disorders and how these disorders affect their decision-making in later life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gabor Maté is the 55th most popular physician (up from 332nd in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 267th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Gabor Maté ranks 55 out of 726. Before him are Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Ronald Ross, Alexis Carrel, Emil von Behring, Joseph Murray, and Peter C. Doherty. After him are Emil Kraepelin, Emil Theodor Kocher, Charles Nicolle, Thutmose IV, Philippe Pinel, and Samuel Hahnemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Gabor Maté ranks 25. Before him are Geraldine Chaplin, Jane Hawking, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Jimmy Page, Peter Mayhew, and Joe Cocker. After him are Carlos Alberto Torres, Rafic Hariri, Françoise Hardy, Joe Frazier, Danny Trejo, and Abdul Latif Rashid.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Gabor Maté ranks 43 out of 1,077. Before him are Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371), Victor Vasarely (1906), Lajos Kossuth (1802), Zoltán Kodály (1882), László Bíró (1899), and Johnny Weissmuller (1904). After him are Emmerich Kálmán (1882), Sándor Petőfi (1823), Sándor Kocsis (1929), Ágnes Keleti (1921), Joseph Pulitzer (1847), and Ágota Kristóf (1935).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Hungary

Among physicians born in Hungary, Gabor Maté ranks 2. Before him are Ignaz Semmelweis (1818). After him are Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Eva Klein (1925), Thomas Szasz (1920), Moritz Kaposi (1837), Edith Farkas (1921), Emil Zuckerkandl (1849), Vilma Hugonnai (1847), Gabriele Possanner (1860), and Jenő Kamuti (1937).

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