Dr. Weiss Psychiatric Expert Witness
Dr. Weiss has decades of experience providing strategic psychiatric guidance in both defense and plaintiff cases involving: personal injury, emotional distress, sexual and/or racial harassment and abuse, PTSD, employment claims, trauma, anxiety, depression, pain and suffering, and more. Start your expert consultation“Dr. Weiss was responsive, well qualified and always prepared. She understands complex medical issues and has the ability to present her opinions to lay persons, the essence of a good expert”.
- Thomas M. Madruga, Esq.
Dr. Weiss’ background
- Board-certified psychiatrist (ABPN) with extensive experience evaluating psychiatric injury in litigation contexts.
- Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, reflecting longstanding professional recognition and credibility.
- Maintains a private psychiatric practice in Beverly Hills, providing evaluations, psychotherapy, and psychotropic medication management.
- Provides expert witness and IME services in civil litigation matters including emotional distress, personal injury, PTSD, employment-related issues, discrimination, and other trauma-related claims.
- Experienced in cases involving sexual, gender-based, racial harassment and discrimination, workplace stressors, and emotional distress claims.
- Routinely addresses psychiatric causation, apportionment, damages, and prognosis in contested legal matters.
- Earned M.D. from Boston University School of Medicine and M.P.H. from UCLA School of Public Health, supporting both individual and population-level analysis.
- Completed psychiatry residency and internship at UCLA, Department of Psychiatry (San Fernando Valley UCLA Program).
- Serves as Volunteer Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
- Member of multiple state, national, and specialty medical organizations, including psychiatry, industrial medicine, and clinical hypnosis.
- Fluent in English and Spanish, allowing effective evaluation and testimony across diverse populations.
Translate Medical Evidence for Legal Use
Dr. Weiss provides thorough case evaluation and psychiatric assessment, translating and integrating complex psychiatric information into clear, evidence-based analysis to inform legal decision-making.
Causation AND Liability
With decades of diverse experience, Dr. Weiss's ability to view a case through multiple lenses provides attorneys with detailed, credible, and compelling psychiatric evidence and causation analysis.
objective and unbiased
Dr. Weiss leaves no stone unturned, ensuring a thorough psychiatric examination and a comprehensive, neutral analysis. Her well-informed opinions, together with her clear reporting and approachable demeanor, provide for strong, evidence-based deposition and trial testimony.
Ultimately, whether Dr. Weiss's findings strengthen her client's case or help uncover weaknesses that need to be addressed, one can be confident that Dr. Weiss will provide a detailed psychiatric analysis based on medical evidence that will stand up to scrutiny.
Dr. Weiss provides strategic guidance for civil litigation involving personal injury, emotional distress, sexual and/or racial harassment and abuse, PTSD, employment claims, trauma, anxiety, depression, pain and suffering, and more, in California, New York, Texas, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Michigan, Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, Arizona, Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, North Carolina, South Carolina and surrounding areas in the USA.