Fabiola Arbelo-Cruz, MD

Dr. Fabiola Arbelo-Cruz is an Attending Addiction Psychiatrist at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) in New Haven, CT, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. One of her roles at CMHC includes working with the Street Psychiatry team, a model of mental health and addiction care delivery that takes physicians and other providers to the streets to provide care primarily to people who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Dr. Arbelo Cruz received her medical degree from Ponce Health Sciences University School of Medicine in Puerto Rico. She trained in General Adult Psychiatry at Boston University/ Boston Medical Center, then completed an Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Yale. Dr. Arbelo Cruz is the past recipient of the APA Travel Scholarship for Minority Medical Students and the Externship in Addiction Psychiatry Award, AAAP John Renner award and Boston University Medical Center Chairman’s Award. She was accepted to the Yale REACH Scholar Program-a program aimed to adequately train physicians to work with minority patients with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Her academic interests include racial inequities in substance use treatment, substance use treatment in Latinx communities, stigma of addictive disorders and their treatment, and medical education.