Adjunct Professor, UBC Department of Psychiatry
Co-Chair, Indigenous Strategy Committee, UBC Department of Psychiatry
Chief Medical Officer, First Nations Health Authority
Email: nel.wieman@fnha.ca
Short Biography
Dr. Wieman is Anishinaabe from Little Grand Rapids First Nation, Manitoba. She lives, works, and plays on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples – the səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. She completed her medical degree and psychiatry specialty training at McMaster University. Canada’s first female Indigenous psychiatrist, Dr. Wieman has more than 20 years’ clinical experience working with Indigenous people in both rural/reserve and urban settings. Dr. Wieman also served as the elected President of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada from 2016 to 2022.
More recently, Dr. Wieman served as Co-Chair of a provincial First Nations Technical Committee that created the British Columbia Cultural Safety & Humility Standard, an organizational standard directed at anti-Indigenous racism across all health and social services in the province.
