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Jennifer I. Downey, M.D., Deputy Editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and Faculty Member at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She received her M.D. degree from Case-Western Reserve School of Medicine and was a resident in Psychiatry and Chief Resident at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute. At Columbia she held a five-year Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Downey attended the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and graduated with a Certificate in Psychoanalysis in 1988.
Dr. Downey has been a researcher, educator, and clinical scholar in the areas of women's health, psychoanalysis, and sexuality. One of her first published articles demonstrated that peripheral sex hormones in heterosexual and homosexual women did not differ. This work, published in Hormones and Behavior, demonstrated that women of different sexual orientations could not be distinguished by physical parameters (Downey, Ehrhardt, Schiffman, Dyrenfurth, & Becker, 1987).
Dr. Downey then went on to carry out research in Turner Syndrome, a chromosomal condition affecting girls which causes infertility, as well