Residency Programs
The Kings County Hospital / SUNY Downstate residency in emergency medicine is a medical school based, academic program that is committed to training competent and compassionate physicians who can manage all aspects of emergency medical care, and who feel at ease in the most challenging circumstances that our profession affords.
The program at Kings County offers unparalleled training in critical care and trauma resuscitation, and provides exposure to a very wide diversity of clinical pathology. Residents are trained to practice evidence-based medicine in an acute setting and encouraged to cultivate their leadership potential. In the last couple of years, 40% of graduating residents have gone on to assume titled positions of leadership at hospitals across the country.
Our primary training site is a large level-one urban trauma center located in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. Kings County Hospital was founded in 1831 and has served generations of immigrants who have arrived in this country in the last century and continue to arrive to this day. Today the surrounding community is largely West Indian, and the majority of our patients are recent immigrants from Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana, as well as new residents from East Asia, Central America and Africa. The neighboring region of Crown Heights has a significant Orthodox Jewish population. The rich cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity of our patients, along with their humor and courtesy is one of the great selling points of our program.
We are looking for a diverse group of residents who are passionate, are strongly motivated to learn, and above all have personalities and a sense of humor. Please take a look around the website and feel free to contact us should you have any questions.
Residency Leadership
Dr. Christopher Doty
Dr. Doty graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1997 and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Kings County / SUNY Downstate. He was a member of the third residency class to graduate from "The County". He served as Chief Resident of the program and was quickly bitten by "the education bug". He started many innovations in the EM curriculum at Kings County even as a resident. He joined the teaching faculty upon graduation and took the position as the Assistant Program Director for the Categorical EM program in February of 2002. He also started the Combined EM/IM Residency in July of 2002 and has served as the Residency Co-Director for the combined EM/IM program since that time.
Dr. Doty has also been very active in the leadership of the Categorical EM program since 2002, and transitioned formally to the Program Director position in 2007. Here he oversees all aspects of Residency Education in the department and ensures the education, quality, and welfare of the residents.
He is active in regional Emergency Medicine serving in the leadership of New York State AAEM chapter and on several NY-ACEP committees. Dr. Doty also works extensively with national AAEM on several committees and is active in the Council of Residency Directors in EM.
He is an avid scuba diver and spends most of his free time hiking and bicycling in Prospect Park, and eating in the many wonderful restaurants around Brooklyn.
Dr. Antonia Quinn 
Upon graduating from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and completing a rotating internship at Union Hospital in New Jersey, Dr. Quinn subsequently completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. She joined the teaching faculty after graduation in 2004 and became an Assistant Program Director in 2005.
Dr Quinn has been involved in residency education since she joined the faculty. Specifically her interests include emergency ultrasonography.
She is actively involved in national Emergency Medicine. She has been a judge for the CPC competition at SAEM since 2007. She is also involved in several committees for CORD as well.
When not working, Dr. Quinn can be found bicycling for many miles around New York City and Brooklyn. If the weather is too cold for biking, she puts on her walking shoes and explores "the City" by foot. She also loves to cook.
Dr. Mark Silverberg
Dr. Silverberg has been a fixture of Kings County Hospital for more than a decade now. After obtaining his MD degree in 1997 from SUNY Downstate School of Medicine, he stayed here to do his Emergency Medicine residency at Kings County Hospital/SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Along with Dr. Doty, he was in the third class (2001) to graduate from the Kings County EM Residency. He stayed on as a faculty member at "The County" and eventually took on the role of Director of Senior Medical Student Education supervising the visiting and in-house fourth year medical students that rotate through our busy level-1 urban ED. After serving 2.5 years in that position, Dr. Silverberg made the jump into resident education and became an Assistant Residency Director.
Over the years, Dr. Silverberg has established himself as one of the leaders in the world of medical imagery. He draws on an ever-growing collection of over 1000 original radiographs and more than 3000 digital images of medical pathology and radiology films. Every year, the SAEM Photo Submission Section of the national meeting accepts multiple images from his collection to hang on their walls of "unknowns." He also served as Associate Editor on a 1000 page medical photographic atlas called Greenberg's Text Atlas of Emergency Medicine. In addition to editing half of the book, he also authored many topics featured in the atlas and submitted more than 200 of the 1200 photographs that appear in the colorful pages of that work. Many of these images can also be seen in Dr. Silverberg's lectures on visual diagnosis, hand pathology, and dive medicine in addition to multiple radiology lectures covering the topics of head CT's, abdomen CT's and trauma screening radiographs that he regularly gives to the Downstate residents and medical students.
On those rare occasions when Dr Silverberg finds time to leave the hospital and Brooklyn, he enjoys traveling to the different countries in the Caribbean to sample their food and scuba dive in their warm, blue waters. Here his passion for photography yet again rears it's head being evidenced by the multiple albums of vibrant undersea life with many of these photos being blown up and lining the walls of his home. He enjoys spending his evenings enjoying the local restaurants with his wife and friends.
Dr. Robert Gore
Robert J Gore, MD is an attending physician, assistant residency director and clinical assistant professor at Kings County Hospital - SUNY Downstate Department of Emergency Medicine in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Gore was raised in Brooklyn. After finishing his undergraduate studies at Morehouse College in Atlanta, he then went on to the State University of New York at Buffalo for medical school. He completed his emergency medicine residency training at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, where he was chief resident. His interests include mentoring, student and resident education, youth violence and violence intervention and international health. Dr. Gore has lectured around the U.S. and has worked in East Africa and South America. When he's not working he is an avid photographer and studies capoeira (Afro-Brazilian martial art).
Dr. Stephan Rinnert
Dr. Rinnert is the Vice Chairman for Education and Faculty Development and an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate / Kings County Hospital. Born in Germany he spent a large part of his childhood in Turkey. After graduating from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, in 1984, he immigrated to the US in 1986. He completed residencies in Internal Medicine at SUNY Downstate and Emergency Medicine at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. Dr. Rinnert joined the Downstate community as a faculty member in 1994. He soon became intricately involved in establishing an Emergency Medicine Residency at Kings County Hospital / SUNY Downstate. His tenure was only interrupted by a mission with Doctors without Borders in 1996/1997. From 1999 to 2007 he served as a residency program director.
As a Vice Chairman he oversees a faculty of 70 attendings within 15 departmental subdivisions. Outside the department his activities include chairman of the Kings County Research Review Committee, Chair of the Advanced Learning Resource Center Committee charged with the development of a integrated campus-wide center for advanced learning and collaboration, and chair of the "FAPS" Committee (Faculty and Professional Staff Personnel Policies, Promotions and Appointments Sub-Committee), a subcommittee of the faculty and staff Executive Committee. This committee has been very active in pursuing faculty development ideas at SUNY Downstate, ultimately attempting to create a faculty development center.
Outside of SUNY, Dr. Rinnert has been involved on a national level at the Council of Residency Directors for Emergency Medicine (CORD EM) where he founded and presently chairs a committee in charge of reviewing the Program Information Form (PIF) and Residency Program Requirements for Emergency Medicine, in relation to relevance, quality outcomes and changes in medicine.
His international credentials include medical work in Germany, Western Africa, Turkey, Iran, and Haiti. He is presently preparing a large international conference in Turkey in conjunction with Downstate's CME office. He sits on the board of directors of EMEDX International, a non-for-profit organization fostering international educational exchange in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Rinnert is fluent in German, English and Turkish and speaks French and Spanish. His areas of research interest include medical education, curriculum development, geriatric Emergency Medicine and international exchange.
Dr. Rinnert lives with his wife Dr. Jacqueline Achkar, an Infectious Disease physician and researcher at Albert Einstein COM, and his two young children, Anton and Lilian, in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, New York.
Ms. Stephanie Lane
Ms. Lane, Residency Coordinator has been a part of the Downstate community since 2002. She completed her BS in Business Management & Finance at Brooklyn College and is currently enrolled in the MPH Program with a concentration in Administration and Policy. In her spare time she loves to travel and spend time with family.
Ms. Sharissa Rivera
Ms. Rivera, Residency Assistant, is currently enrolled in the nursing major at New York City College of Technology. She has been a part of the Downstate family since 2004. She enjoys quality time with friends and family.
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