Dr. Garza is a psychiatrist at the Michael Callen- Audre Lorde Community Health Center, the first primary care facility for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population in the United States. Since 1998 he has been the original psychiatrist for Callen-Lorde’s Health Outreach to Teens (HOTT) Program a primary care clinic servicing youth ages 13- 24. Dr. Garza is on the faculty of the NYU-Langone Medical School of Medicine and works as the Director of the Assisted Outpatient Treatment, or Kendra’s Law, program for the borough of Queens in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for the City of New York, an outpatient commitment statute for psychiatric consumers court ordered into customized outpatient treatment plans in order to remain safely in the community. He is the Medical Director of the program for Queens County. Dr. Garza is the psychiatrist for the SCO Family of Services agency providing consultation and treatment for their LGBTQ foster group homes in the New York City area and has also worked periodically with their Juvenile Justice program. He teaches regularly at both the local and national levels on adolescent mental health, commitment law, the health of racial and sexual minorities, and substance abuse. Dr. Garza is in private practice in Manhattan and is a volunteer examiner for Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network providing evaluations for immigration proceedings. Daniel Garza was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas and his parents emigrated from Mexico. He received his medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed a residency in psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. He returned to Columbia to complete a post-doctoral fellowship in Public Psychiatry.