Dr. Lynden (Lindsay) Crowshoe is a Piikani Nation band member, a First Nations physician, an Associate Professor of Medicine and an Assistant Dean at the University of Calgary. He provides clinical service to the urban Indigenous population of Calgary at the Elbow River Healing Lodge, an AHS primary health service model. He contributes to local, provincial and national health services policy and programing, focusing on improving primary health care service for Indigenous people.

As an Indigenous health researcher, he has experience leading provincial, national and international research teams focusing on primary care, public health and health education. He provides input on Indigenous health education policy and programming within national organizations (Association of Faculties of Medicine, the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada) and leads similar activities within his local institution, the Cumming School of Medicine.