shrinkiatry is professional commentary, not medical advice. If you need care, shrinkMD is the network's practice. In crisis? Call or text 988 in the US.
shrinkiatry.Part of The Shrink Network
Program profile · New York

Psychiatry residency at Weill Cornell (NewYork-Presbyterian)

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
NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medicine
Location
New York, 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
Daniel Knoepflmacher, MD, who's also vice chair of education. Alyson Gorun, MD, is the associate training director and directs psychotherapy training.
Training sites
The Payne Whitney clinic at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell on the Upper East Side, NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health in White Plains (a roughly 250-bed psychiatric hospital), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for psycho-oncology, and Lincoln Hospital for addiction consultation.
Structure
The PGY-1 year splits evenly between medicine, neurology, emergency medicine, and psychiatry, and the PGY-4 year is largely elective, ending in a senior project.

shrinkiatry context

The Weill Cornell psychiatry residency trains residents across a wide integration of phenomenological, biological, psychodynamic, and sociocultural viewpoints, with a strong psychotherapy tradition and an unusually flexible, largely elective final year. Residents move from acute inpatient and emergency work in the early years to a full outpatient PGY-3 carrying long-term psychotherapy and psychopharmacology cases, then design a personalized PGY-4. It's in New York City, on the Upper East Side.

See something wrong or out of date?Tell us on the submission and correction form and we'll verify and fix it. A listing is not an endorsement, an award, or a ranking.

Sources

  1. Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry, Residency Training Program. https://psychiatry.weill.cornell.edu/residency-training-program
  2. Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry, Residency Leadership and Contact. https://psychiatry.weill.cornell.edu/residency-leadership-contact
  3. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

All verified New York programs · The Residency Guide standards

Educational and professional commentary only. shrinkiatry explains the profession of psychiatry. It doesn't provide medical advice, isn't a substitute for evaluation or treatment by a licensed clinician, and reading it doesn't create a doctor-patient relationship.