Dr. Guy Maytal, MD

Dr. Guy Maytal practices at the intersection of medicine and the mind. For more than two decades he has cared for patients facing serious illness, the people for whom a cancer diagnosis or a chronic condition is also a profound emotional passage, not only a medical one. His work is defined by that dual fluency. He understands the science of treatment as deeply as he understands what illness does to a person's sense of self, and he extends that same care to the families and caregivers who walk the journey alongside them. A physician executive as well as a clinician, Dr. Maytal most recently served as Chief Medical Officer of Forge Health, where he led a national integratedcare model uniting behavioral health with physical medicine and built dedicated programming for patients with cancer and other life-limiting illness. He is now expanding a private practice devoted to the psychiatric care of the medically ill, with particular attention to an area he considers underserved: the cancer survivor, the patient who has finished active treatment and must learn to live again. His training reflects a rare breadth. He graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins, and trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, first in internal medicine, then in adult psychiatry through the MGH and McLean program. He completed a fellowship in psycho-oncology and psychosomatic medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, followed by further fellowships in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and in medical ethics at Harvard. Over eleven years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and MGH, he built and led clinical programs and became the hospital's first psychiatric liaison to palliative medicine. He went on to serve as Chief of Integrated Care and Psychiatric Oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell, where he remains a clinical faculty member. Board certified in both Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in 2018. Patients come to Dr. Maytal for clarity in difficult moments. He brings calm, precision, and the rare ability to hold the medical and the human in the same conversation.