Dr. Restrepo-Guzman is a psychiatrist interested in the field of cultural psychiatry and human rights, and currently manages a substance abuse and mental health program that he developed at the Long Beach VA Hospital.

Dr. Restrepo completed medical school at the Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud in Medellín, Colombia. In 2003, he completed his residency training in Psychiatry at Boston University Medical Center, and then obtained a fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry from the same institution. In 2008, he received a Master’s degree in Global Public Health from New York University. He is board certified in Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry.

Before moving to the Long Beach facility, he worked at St Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center, an academic institution affiliated with Columbia University, where he was the Director of the Addiction Psychopharmacology Clinic at the Addiction Institute of New York, as well as Attending Psychiatrist at the Adult Outpatient Clinic.