Dr Raju Hajela
MD, MPH, CCFP (AM), FCFP
Dr Raju Hajela received his MD from Dalhousie University in Halifax in 1982 and his Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1988.
He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine and holds added qualifications in Addiction Medicine from the College of Family Physicians of Canada, where he is a Fellow. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and of the International Society of Addiction Medicine.
He led the development of the Canadian Certification in Addiction Medicine, established in 2000, and of the definition of addiction published by the American Society of Addiction Medicine in 2011. He has held faculty appointments at Queen’s University and the University of Calgary.
He is co-founder, President and Medical Director of Health Upwardly Mobile, an outpatient health and wellness centre in Calgary. He also completed training in Maharishi Ayurveda in 1994.
Credentials
- MD, Dalhousie University (1982)
- MPH, Harvard School of Public Health (1988)
- Diplomate, American Board of Addiction Medicine
- CCFP (AM) and Fellow, College of Family Physicians of Canada
- Distinguished Fellow, ASAM and ISAM
- Former faculty, Queen’s University and University of Calgary
Biography from Health Upwardly Mobile.