Daniel Mierlak MD, Ph

Daniel Mierlak is a psychiatrist and author, board-certified in General and Addiction Psychiatry. Dr. Mierlak received his MD and PhD from SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn in 1989. He completed his residency training in psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College, Payne Whitney Clinic, in 1993, and completed his fellowship in addiction psychiatry at New York University Medical Center in 1996. He has been Medical Director of the Freedom Institute, an outpatient chemical dependency treatment center in Manhattan, since 2008, and is Clinical Assistant Professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College.

Dr. Mierlak has treated a wide array of psychiatric and addictive disorders in hospital, clinic, and private office settings. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Mierlak has taught and lectured on topics in psychiatry. He has also conducted basic science research on the benzodiazepine receptor, and clinical research on psychiatric illness in HIV patients, and on substance use disorders in homeless, mentally ill men.