SUNY Downstate Medical Center Division of Infectious Diseases

As a medical university, SUNY Downstate Medical Center offers high-impact health education programs in its five colleges and schools – Medicine, Nursing, Health-Related Professions, Public Health, and Graduate Studies – and offers BS, MS, MPH, DrPH, DPT, Ph.D., and MD degrees to over 1,800 students. The campus also includes its teaching hospital—University Hospital of Brooklyn—and a large research and biotechnology complex. Downstate, which traces its history back to 1860, is located in Brooklyn, New York, in the heart of the nation’s largest, most ethnically-diverse urban community.

The campus is known for excellence in clinical care and training, for the rich diversity of its students and faculty, and the vitality of its research programs. Downstate’s faculty member Dr. Robert F. Furchgott received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1998. Castle Connolly Medical recently ranked SUNY Downstate as the fourth top U.S. Medical School for Training, and more than 900 leading doctors nationwide earned medical degrees from SUNY Downstate Medical Center.