The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science provides a number of high quality clinical programs, a psychiatry residency program and accredited fellowships in child and geriatric psychiatry, and an array of sponsored research activities. At present there are approximately 45 full time faculty and numerous voluntary faculty who participate in supervision and training of students. The clinical services are chiefly operated at Stony Brook University Hospital, but there are affiliated clinical and teaching programs and Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, the Northport Veteran's Hospital, and Nassau University Hospital. The University Hospital Psychiatry Service includes an active Comprehensive Psychiatry Emergency Program, a 30 bed Adult unit and a 10 bed Child unit, Adult and Child outpatient facilities, as well as a consultation service. In addition, the department operates an accredited sleep disorders program at St. Charles Hospital. The accredited residency program maintains 24 positions, usually admitting 6 candidates per year. Five of these positions are sponsored by the Northport Veterans Hospital where the residents rotate for inpatient and substance abuse experience. There are also 4 Child and Adolescent Fellowship positions, a Sleep Disorders Fellowship and a Geriatric Fellowship. Medical Students rotate through our clinical services at University Hospital as well as a Nassau University Medical Center and the VA Hospital. Psychiatry provides a significant leadership role in directing and implementing the medical school curriculum. Psychiatry faculty directIntroduction to Human Behavior, Molecules, Cells and Genes, Psychiatric and Behavioral Neuroscience, as well as two required clerkships, Clinical Psychiatry and Psychiatry and Medicine. There are many active research projects funded by NIH, NIMH, NIDA, NIAAA, NCI, etc. In addition, pharmaceutical industry sponsored clinical trials make available cutting edge treatment options to our patients. | 
