Sandra Gomez, M.D.

Dr. Gomez is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and a second year candidate at the New York University’s Psychoanalytic Institute. She is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr. Gomez has a deep background in studying Adolescent suicide stemming from her contact with hundreds of suicidal children, adolescents and young adults during her tenure as the Director of the Emergency Services for the Division of Child and Adolescence Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City. Dr. Gomez has also participated in prominent research projects in this field such as the treatment of Adolescents Suicide Attempters (TASA) study.

Dr. Gomez graduated Cum Laude from Pedro H. Urena National University School of Medicine in the Dominican Republic. She completed her fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia University’s St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center where she became chief resident during her senior year.

Dr. Gomez is an active medical staff member and has admitting privileges at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, CT, where she has a private practice.