We train residents to become leaders in academic psychiatry, employing individually designed programs and subspecialty “majors.”
Welcome to the Psychiatry Residency Program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The Psychiatry Residency Program at The Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH) has an exciting new venture: our incorporation of the groundbreaking Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center (MSBHC) as a major clinical teaching site alongside MSH. Our mission remains the same: leverage Mount Sinai’s culture of flexibility, support, and innovation for residents to develop into future leaders of psychiatry, with individualized areas of expertise in clinical, research, public, and administrative realms. With robust training in psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and clinically applicable neuroscience, we encourage lifelong intellectual curiosity in a supportive and stimulating academic environment.
We continue to provide our long-established extraordinary training, just under a slightly different name and number.
Our new nomenclature: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Psychiatry Residency (ACGME Program Code: 4003500007)
Our NRMP Program Tracks remain the same:
- Psychiatry: 1490400C0
- Psychiatry/Physician-Scientist: 1490400C2
Our world-class psychiatric residency, spanning both The Mount Sinai Hospital and the new Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center (MSBHC), allows for an integration of complementary resources to magnify our already extraordinary opportunities for training, clinical care, electives, and faculty appointments. This model—a single residency program inclusive of a top quaternary care hospital and a standalone psychiatric center—has a long history of success in the field of psychiatric education.
By taking this step forward and incorporating the MSBHC and its current residents into our lauded residency curriculum, we are currently recruiting for an incoming class of 22 general clinical track and two physician-scientist research track residents for 2025-26.
As our core curricular structure, policies, and protected time remain largely unchanged (but with expanded potential opportunities), so does our primary leadership (Antonia, Asher, and Mercedes) who have been working together for more than a decade. We are thrilled to also welcome three additional APDs to the fold (Lea, Rose, and Brian), each of whom brings a substantial track record of educational leadership and intimate experiential knowledge of our residency program.
- Program Director & Vice Chair for Education: Antonia S. New, MD
- Senior Associate Program Director: Asher B. Simon, MD
- Associate Program Director for Research: Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, MD, PhD
- Associate Program Director (MSBHC): Lea K. Marin, MD, MPH
- Assistant Program Director (MSBHC): Rose Kleiman, MD
- Assistant Program Director for Research: Brian Sweis, MD, PhD
At The Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center, your training experience will be productive and fulfilling in an open, stimulating, and supportive environment. You’ve made an excellent choice to pursue a career as a psychiatrist—information about the brain is rapidly proliferating, so it’s an exciting time to be treating, teaching about, and researching psychiatric illness. Hear from past residents, faculty, and program leadership in our video.
A Multidisciplinary Think Tank
program has a unique “think tank” setup that particularly benefits this stage in your career. Our program is co-located with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Friedman Brain Institute (FBI), which means that our level of discourse between trainees, clinicians, and researchers is unparalleled in scope and proximity. The departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neurosurgery are linked with the basic sciences via the Department of Neuroscience and the FBI—not sequestered away in silos. These departments are in constant conversation, transcending the conceptual barriers that often separate biological models of mental illness from psychological ones.
Subspecialty Experts
Our curriculum is emergent and individualized. We maximize flexibility, allowing for the growth of projects and independent thinking at an early stage. We counsel residents to develop a niche, and we provide teaching, facilitation, advising, and mentoring along that chosen path. Beyond the core requirements of achieving competence to practice clinical psychiatry, we help you build your own experiences so that you can become a true specialist and be the most effective agent in your domain, whether you choose to become an academic clinician, researcher, educator, executive, theorist, or advocate for public awareness of mental illness.
As our residency program is also uniquely tied to research, you’ll be situated within a hotbed of scientific discovery and have access to topnotch mentors. In 2023, our Department of Neuroscience was ranked #2 nationally in NIH funding and our Department of Psychiatry was #6.
Additionally, both the Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Chief Scientific Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System are psychiatrists, so the organization’s leadership is heavily invested in the success of our department. Leveraging Mount Sinai’s culture of flexibility and innovation, we offer a wealth of opportunities for you to fashion into unique educational, academic, and professional experiences. We look forward to meeting you, and we wish you the best in your search for the training program that fits you best.
Antonia S. New, MD
Director, Residency Education
Vice Chair for Education
212-659-8902
antonia.new@mssm.edu
Asher B. Simon, MD
Associate Director, Residency Education
212-659-9114
asher.simon@mssm.edu
Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, MD, PhD
Associate Training Director for Research
212-659-8698
mercedes.perez@mssm.edu
Brian Sweis, MD, PhD
Assistant Training Director for Research
212-659-9286
Brian.sweis@mssm.edu
Lea K. Marin, MD, MPH
Associate Program Director, Mount SinaiBehavioral Health Center
332-243-1816
Lea.Marin@mssm.edu
Rose Kleiman, MD
Assistant Program Director, Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center
332-243-1806
Rose.Kleiman-weiner@mountsinai.org