Message from the Residency Training Director 2011-2012
Welcome to Weill Cornell!
Elizabeth L. Auchincloss, MD
This is an extraordinary time to be beginning a career in psychiatry. The explosion of research in the brain sciences together with the real possibility of integrating our knowledge of the brain with our understanding of the mind promises advances in our ability to help patients as well as tremendous intellectual excitement. As a world-renowned center of excellence in both brain-based and psychologically-based psychiatry, the Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry is in a unique position to prepare residents to participate in a field undergoing rapid growth and change. We recognize that today's resident must acquire a broad range of skills and master a knowledge base of great complexity. Our residency program is designed to help residents meet these challenges. The clinical services at the Payne Whitney Clinic and NewYork-Presbyterian Hosptial Westchester Division provide residents with experience caring for patients from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, spanning every age group and every type of clinical problem. Training in research methodology and scholarship, integrated throughout the program, prepares residents to evaluate the academic literature, to translate clinical experience and observation into research questions and to participate in empirical investigation. We also recognize that no single frame of reference is adequate for understanding human behavior and psychopathology. Throughout our intensive clinical, didactic and research program, residents are taught a sophisticated approach to patient care and intellectual inquiry based on the integration of phenomenological, biological, psychodynamic and socio-cultural viewpoints. An additional priority for all residents is the development of the self-awareness, personal growth and enthusiasm for learning necessary for excellence in psychiatry.
Please browse our website and call us with any questions.
Best wishes,
Elizabeth L. Auchincloss, MD
Vice Chair for Graduate Medical Education
Director of Residency Training
Contact Information
- Vice Chairman for Graduate Medical Education and Director of Residency Training
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Elizabeth L. Auchincloss, MD
Telephone: (212) 746-3722
Fax: (212) 746-8886
E-mail: elauchin@med.cornell.edu - Chief Residents
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Jennifer Bernstein, MD
Telephone (212) 746-9787
E-mail:jeb7016@nyp.org - Matthew Zimmerman, MD
Telephone (212) 746-5561
E-mail: maz9024@nyp.org - Program Coordinator
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Jackie Sternberg
Telephone: (212) 746-3720
Fax: (212) 746-8886
E-mail:jas2021@med.cornell.edu
- Associate Training Director
- Sibel Klimstra, MD
Telephone: (914) 997-5710
Fax: (914) 682-6963
E-mail: sakyol@med.cornell.edu - Assistant Training Director
- Michael Walton, MD
Telephone: (212) 746-3765
E-mail: miw2008@med.cornell.edu - Assistant Training Director
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Jessica Zonana, MD
Telephone: (212) 746-3824
E-mail: jez9004@med.cornell.edu