Ritika Goel

Ritika Goel is a family physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at University of Toronto working with the St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team. She is the inaugural Social Justice, Anti-Oppression and Advocacy Lead for MD-PGME at University of Toronto. She had held positions as the Faculty Lead for Social Accountability at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Chair of the Social Accountability Working Group at the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Ritika has been engaged in health-related activism, public speaking and writing on issues at the intersection of health and social justice throughout her career. She has been a board member of Canadian Doctors for Medicare, and an organizer with OHIP for All, and Doctors for Defunding Police. Ritika is passionate about bringing lenses of anti-oppression and social justice into medicine, including medical education, continuing professional development and institutional change. Find her on Twitter at @RitikaGoelTO.