Melissa Atkinson-Graham

Dr. Melissa Atkinson-Graham is currently practicing as a primary spine care clinician and lead investigator with World Spine Care as part of their Global Spine Care Initiative Model of Care implementation study based in Pimicikamak (Cross Lake), Treaty 5, Manitoba. 

Dr. Atkinson-Graham obtained her Doctor of Chiropractic degree from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 2023. Dr. Atkinson-Graham is also a medical anthropologist and qualitative health researcher. She completed her doctorate in Social Anthropology at York University in 2016, specializing in medical anthropology and science and technology studies. Dr. Atkinson-Graham has held research fellowships with University of California at Davis, the Mind and Life Institute, and the New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She continues to work at the intersections of research and business strategy as an applied anthropologist, leading multidisciplinary teams to support clients in the life sciences, government, and not-for-profit sector to solve for some of the most pressing challenges facing healthcare both locally and globally. 

Dr. Atkinson-Graham is currently an adjunct professor at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto, Ontario and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and research staff at the Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research at Ontario Tech University. She endeavours to enact participatory, trauma-informed, culturally-safe, anti-oppressive, and anti-colonial approaches in her research and clinical practices.