Sheila Weiss, PhD

Sheila Weiss, PhD is an Associate Professor in Pharmacy and Medicine. Dr. Weiss earned a doctoral degree in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Weiss received specialty training in Pharmacoepidemiology and Regulatory Sciences through a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Drug Information Association, and later worked at the Food and Drug Administration, conducting drug safety studies and evaluating marketed drug products.

In April 1997, she joined the faculty at the University of Maryland where she teaches research methods to both graduate and professional students. Current research areas include pediatric asthma (Project INHALE and the NASA-Maryland Asthma Project), drug safety in pregnancy, and she is working with the FDA on monitoring practices for drugs with known liver toxicity.