Specialty 1: Psychiatry

Keywords/Search Terms: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, Personality Disorders, Sexual Harassment, Litigation Support for Employment Actions & Workers' Compensation

Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine

License(s): California

Years in Practice: 40

• 33 years performing IMEs
• 200 IMEs performed
• Deposed/Testified 1000 times

IME Certification: Board Certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology

Additional Information

With over 40 years' experience in adult psychiatry, including decades providing expert witness litigation support, IMEs regarding psychiatric aspects of harassment (sexual/gender-based/racial), employment law, and/or injuries/accidents related to Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation issues, Dr. Weiss is well known for her comprehensive, fact-based, persuasive reports. (Dr. Weiss is not a child psychiatrist.) Dr. Weiss' unique ability to establish exceptional rapport with clients allows for thoughtful, thorough examinations, leaving no stone unturned. As everything affects the psyche, her keen attention to detail with complex medical-legal records enables her to integrate highly complex psychiatric histories and concepts, coming to evidence-based opinions, and providing high-caliber, usable medical-legal reporting and testimony. Dr. Weiss has decades of diverse experience. Able to view a case through multiple lenses, she must consider what has happened prior to, since, and outside of an accident/incident, as well as uncovering details of the event(s) itself. She must be objective and look at the evidence which has been presented. It is important to consider how a person is functioning, and what is the status of their mental/psychological state. If there is evidence for psychiatric injury/pain and suffering, her ability to articulate a person's perspective, as well as how she, as the psychiatric expert, would understand the issues and their impacts on each individual case, is unparalleled. Ultimately, whether Dr. Weiss' findings strengthen her client's case, or help to uncover weaknesses/deficiencies which need to be addressed, one can be confident that Dr. Weiss will provide a through, detailed psychiatric analysis based on medical evidence. Dr. Weiss, well-traveled, fluent in both English and Spanish, holding a Master's Degree in Public Health and a BA in Scandinavian Languages, easily facilitates robust connections with people from all walks of life.