Guy Maytal, MD

Staff Psychiatrist, Palliative Care Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Guy Maytal, MD is the Director of the Psychiatry Urgent Care Clinic and the Psychiatric Liaison to the Palliative Care Team at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Maytal graduated with high honors from Harvard College and then attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. After medical school, he trained at the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program and served as the chief resident on the Consultation-Liaison Service. After residency, he completed a fellowship in Psycho-oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Dr. Maytal has authored or co-authored articles on the psychiatric aspects of caring for cancer patients, end-of-life issues, topics in medical psychiatry, and medical staff stress. He has interests in the psychosocial aspects of cancer and cancer survivorship, psychotherapy, resiliency in the medically ill, and the interface of spirituality and psychiatry.