About
Dr. Weiss is Board-Certified in Forensic Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, and Brain Injury Medicine, based in Austin, Texas. He is uniquely qualified to address the complicated relationship between mental illness, physical illness, crossover treatment of multiple mental and physical conditions, and psychiatric damages.
Dr. Weiss has been in medical practice for more than 40 years. For over two decades, he has been a practicing Psychiatrist and Forensic Psychiatrist.
Dr. Weiss pursued medicine after obtaining a degree in mathematics at MIT. He received training in Internal Medicine at the Henry Ford Hospital of the University of Michigan Medical School, Psychiatry at Michael Reese Hospital of the University of Chicago Medical School, and a Fellowship in Nutrition from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical School. He obtained his medical degree at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit.
He is sought for the depth and breadth of his expertise surrounding psychiatric and medical issues.
Additionally, he has specialized expertise in Addiction Psychiatry, with a focus on alcohol, street drugs, and prescription medications. He has served in leadership roles at respected rehab facilities and inpatient and outpatient recovery programs in Chicago, Atlanta, and Austin, Texas.
Dr. Weiss is called upon to conduct Forensic Psychiatry & Medical Evaluations and testify as an Expert Witness; he has conducted thousands of psychiatric assessments in his career and testified in dozens of court cases. He also privately consults with attorneys about the psychiatric features of their cases as an unretained expert.
Dr. Weiss has presented and published extensively about the psychiatric impact of stress, pain, and addiction, geriatric psychiatry, and diseases and injuries of the brain.