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Program profile · New York

Psychiatry residency at SUNY Downstate

Last verified July 27, 2026 · Checked against the program's official website

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 27, 2026.

Program
Psychiatry Residency Program
Sponsoring institution
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Location
Brooklyn, New York
Program type
General (adult) psychiatry
Training length
Four years (PGY-1 to PGY-4)
Accreditation
ACGME-accredited. See the ACGME ADS finder for the program's current accreditation status and identifier.

Reported by the program

The program describes the following on its official website, reviewed on July 27, 2026.

Program director
Junaid K. Mirza, MD, a dual board-certified, forensic-trained psychiatrist and Downstate alumnus. The associate program director is Lana B. Irons, MD, and the department chair is Michael Reinhardt, MD.
Program size
About 48 residents across the four years. Downstate describes itself as the only university-based, and the largest, psychiatry program in Brooklyn.
Training sites
University Hospital at Downstate, Kings County Hospital Center, the Brooklyn VA Medical Center, South Brooklyn Health, and Kingsboro Psychiatric Center.
Tradition
A history in community psychiatry, dynamic psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and neuroscience, with a required PGY-2 research month.

shrinkiatry context

The SUNY Downstate psychiatry residency is Brooklyn's university-based program, training a large and internationally diverse group of residents across a public hospital, a county hospital, a VA, and a state psychiatric center. Because it's embedded in a medical school, residents teach medical students throughout, and the department pairs a strong community psychiatry mission with research through its Alzheimer's and genomic health centers. It's in Brooklyn.

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Sources

  1. SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Department of Psychiatry, Residency Program. https://www.downstate.edu/education-training/fellowship-residency-programs/psychiatry/residency-program/index.html
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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