Mitchell Gralnick Weiss

Background

Weiss, Mitchell Gralnick was born on March 2, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Education

AB with honors in Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 1969; Master of Arts in South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1974; Doctor of Philosophy in South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1977; Doctor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1981.

Career

Research assistant, University of Pennsylvania, 1975-1976; teaching assistant 1st year Sanskrit, University of Pennsylvania, 1976-1977; intern, Cambridge (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1981-1982; resident in psychiatry, Cambridge (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1982-1985; clinical fellow psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 1981-1985; Dupont-Warren fellow department psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 1984-1985; instructor departments psychiatry, social medicine and health policy, Harvard Medical School, 1985-1988; assistant professor departments social medicine and psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, since 1988; member of staff, Heritage Hospital, Somerville, Massachusetts member of staff, Cambridge Hospital. Presenter 15th annual Bose Memorial Lecture, Indian Psychoanalytic Society, Calcutta, 1987. Director cross-cultural programs department psychiatry Cambridge Hospital, since 1985.

Acting director research Metropolitan Eastern State Hospital, 1986-1987. Consultant toHarvard Institute for International Development, Thailand Ministry Public Health, since 1986.

Achievements

• Mitchell Gralnick Weiss has been listed as a noteworthy Social medicine educator, psychiatrist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member institutional review board North Charles Foundation, Cambridge Hospital, since 1986. Member Paul Dudley White international medicine fellowship committee Harvard Medical School, since 1989. Fellow National Academy Indian Medicine, Society Applied Anthropology.

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological Association, American Association History of Medicine, American Psychiatric Association, American Oriental Society, American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Association Asian Studies, Fulbright Association, International Association Study Traditional Asian Medicine (associate secretary 1979-1984, secretary general 1984-1989), Massachusetts Medical Society, National Council International Health, Oriental Club Philadelphia, Royal Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Society Medical Anthropology, Society Psychological Anthropology, Society for Social History of Medicine, Society for Study of Psychiatry and Culture, World Psychiatric Association (transcultural psychiatrysect.), World Federation Psychiatry.