Biography

Lawrence M. Weiss, M.D. is Chairman of the Department of Pathology at the City of Hope. He received his B.S. summa cum laude and his MD. Summa cum laude from the University of Maryland. He did a residency in Anatomic Pathology at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA and a fellowship in Surgical Pathology at Stanford University Medical Center. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Stanford and Director of Surgical Pathology at City of Hope.

Dr. Weiss’ interests lie in surgical pathology, hematopathology, and immunohistochemistry. He is the author of over 300 papers and book chapters, as well as three books, including the recently published AFIP Lymph Node Fascicle. His laboratory discovered the first molecular evidence linking the Epstein-Barr virus with Hodgkin’s disease. He has won numerous awards, including the Benjamin Castleman, Arthur Purdy Stout, and the United States-Canadian Academy of Pathology Young Investigator Awards, and has delivered over 100 national and international talks in Pathology. He is on the Editorial Board of eight scientific journals, and is the Associate Editor of two of them. He has been listed in the book The Best Doctors in America since 1994.

Professional Experience

1997 - present, Chairman, Department of Pathology, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1989 - 1997, Director, Surgical Pathology, Department of Pathology, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1985 - 1989, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

1984 - 1985, Acting Instructor in Pathology (Surgical Pathology), Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA

Education and Training

1983 - 1984, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, Pathology Fellow in Anatomic Pathology (Surgical Pathology)

1981 - 1983, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, M.A.,Resident in Anatomic

1981, University of Maryland, Baltimore, M.D.,Medicine

1976, University of Maryland, College Park, M.D.,B.S.. Zoology

This is an abbreviated document. Full CV available upon request. Information on this page may be self-reported and is subject to change at any time. Last updated: 07/08.

Honors and Awards

1999, Young Investigator Award from the United States-Canadian Academy of Pathology for a body of work which has contributed to the diagnosis and understanding of human disease by a pathologist under 45 years

1995, Arthur Purdy Stout Lectureship, Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists

1994, Broders Lectureship (inaugural recipient), Scott and White Clinic

1988 - 1989, Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellow

1987 - 1989, Clinical Oncology Career Development Award from the American Cancer Society

1986 - 1987, Hume Faculty Scholar, Stanford University

1995, Arthur Purdy Stout Award for the most outstanding diagnostic pathology paper in the previous year by a surgical pathologist under 40

1986, Benjamin Castleman Award of the International Academy of Pathology for the most outstanding paper in English in the field of human pathology in the previous year by a pathologist under 40