Full Name
Stuart Lustig
Job Title
National Medical Executive for Behavioral Health
Company
Evernorth Behavioral Health/Cigna
Speaker Bio
Dr. Stuart L. Lustig came to Cigna in 2011 and is the National Medical Executive for Behavioral Health at Evernorth, a Cigna company. He engages with clients, provider groups, and other stakeholders about their behavioral health care. He also manages a team that manages escalated grievances of importance to their clients. A board-certified child psychiatrist, he previously served as Lead Medical Director for Child and Adolescent Care for Evernorth Behavioral Health. Members of Dr. Lustig’s team received the company’s prestigious Quarterly Champion Award for disseminating health services research via peer-reviewed journal publications and presentations at conferences. Dr. Lustig previously served as Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. For two decades, Dr. Lustig has worked with numerous human rights organizations and, due to numerous published articles in professional journals, is a nationally recognized expert on psychological trauma among refugees and political asylum seekers. He has provided consultations to numerous school systems in the San Francisco and Boston areas. He is the editor of the textbook, Advocacy Strategies for Health and Mental Health Professionals: From Patients to Policies. Dr. Lustig received his Doctorate of Medicine from Rush Medical College and completed his psychiatric training at Stanford and Harvard hospitals. He also has a Master's in Public Health from the University of Illinois School of Public Health.
Stuart Lustig