"The courage to act: Hope as fundamental to clinical engagement and institutional organization in psychosocial oncology"

Guy Maytal, MD

Dr. Guy Maytal is Forge Health’s Chief of Integrated Care and Psychiatric Services. In this role, he is leading Forge Health’s initiatives to provide the highest quality care to clients with coexisting medical conditions, and to enhance the interface of Forge Health’s mental health & substance use services with medical specialties – including primary care medicine, oncology, and others.

Most recently, Dr. Maytal served as Chief of Integrated Care and Psychiatric Oncology at New York-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medicine (2018-2023), where he provided clinical leadership in the development and growth of clinical services, provided expert consultation and clinical care for patients across a broad spectrum of diagnoses, and taught students and peers across multiple medical specialties. Previously, Dr. Maytal spent 11 years on the faculty of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School, where he served in several leadership positions, including Medical Director of Psychiatry Ambulatory Services.

Dr. Maytal graduated with high honors from Harvard College and attended medical school at Johns Hopkins University. He completed residency in adult psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital / McLean Hospital, and Fellowship in Psycho-oncology and Psychosomatic Medicine at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

Dr. Maytal has written widely in his areas of clinical expertise, and has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed papers, review articles, and book chapters in various areas of psychosomatic medicine. Furthermore, Dr. Maytal is a dedicated and passionate teacher who is committed to training early-career clinicians as well as to the ongoing education of practicing clinicians. Dr. Maytal continues to serve as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and as a Distinguished Fellow of the APA since 2018.

Leslie Horton

Leslie has her own history with Psychosocial Oncology after a battle with cancer in 2021. It was while healing from a radical hysterectomy that Leslie’s doctor put her in touch with the Psychosocial Oncology program at Tom Baker Cancer Centre. The support she received and continues to receive from the Program has been instrumental in her ongoing recovery.

Leslie Horton delivers comprehensive traffic coverage and community events weekdays on Global News Morning and Global News at Noon. 

A graduate of the University of B.C., she also graduated from Broadcast Journalism program, her broadcast career has taken her to Terrace, B.C.; Red Deer, Alberta; Regina, Saskatchewan; and back to Red Deer before moving to Calgary in 1995.   

Leslie can be found supporting events around the community and reporting live around our city. 

The visionary behind Global Calgary’s hugely successful Morning/Month of Giving initiative, which raises money to bring Christmas cheer to Calgarians who need it, she also volunteers her time for many charities and organizations each year.

Angela Pharris Ph.D., MSW

Dr. Pharris is an Assistant Professor in the Anne & Henry Zarrow School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma, Director of the Center for Child Welfare Training and Senior Research Fellow at the Hope Research Center. Her research is focused on the application and implementation of hope-centered and trauma-informed practices that impact human service programs. Angela’s current research is in child welfare and human service organizations and the application of the Hope Centered and Trauma-Informed framework. This research informed the development of the “Hope Centered and Trauma Informed” training program. Hope is a psychological strength, buffer to stress, adversity, and burnout, and a hopeful mindset that improves organizational and individual outcomes.