Speaker's Profile

Andy Cruz is a native Texan who was trained at Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital where he has received teaching awards from both medical students and residents. He is passionate about increasing mental healthcare access and has spent his career obsessing about this mission. He has served as a medical director for a low-barrier substance use clinic and an emergency room attending at Massachusetts General Hospital, a psychiatrist-in-charge at McLean Hospital and a medical director at Headway. He believes that Guidelight Health will play a transformative role in remedying the current mental healthcare crisis and looks forward to offering world-class clinical programming to our clients. In his spare time, he enjoys playing Rachmaninoff, traveling, and spending time with his husband and rescue dog.