Guy Maytal, M.D.

Guy Maytal, MD is the innaugural Chief of Integrated Care and Psychiatric Oncology in the Psychiatry Department of Weill Cornell Medical College / New York Hospital in New York City. In that role, he serves as the Medical Director of the Weill Cornell Psychiatry Collaborative Care Center. He is also an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Until May of 2018 Dr. Maytal was the Medical Director of Ambulatory Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Director of the MGH Psychiatry Urgent Care and Primary Care Psychiatry Clinics for 9 years. He served as the Psychiatric Liaison to the Palliative Care Team at MGH from 2007-2019 and was a senior member of the MGH Ethics Committee for 11 years. He was also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he taught medical ethics and professionalism. Dr. Maytal graduated with high honors from Harvard College and then attended the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Afterwards he trained at the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program where he served as Chief Resident of the Consultation-Liaison Service. He completed further training as the Psycho-Oncology fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and the Fellowship in the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Maytal has spent much of his career developing systems of care that integrate mental health services and measures into general medical practice. His clinical practice focuses on urgently ill psychiatric patients and also on the care of patients with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. Dr. Maytal lectures and publishes on physician-patient communication, the psychiatric aspects of medical ethics, the psychiatric care of the medically complex patient, the interface of spirituality and psychiatry, and managing challenging interactions with patients and families.