Background
Weiss, Robert Jerome was born on December 9, 1917 in West New York, New Jersey, United States. Son of Harry and Dora (Samuels) Weiss.
Weiss, Robert Jerome was born on December 9, 1917 in West New York, New Jersey, United States. Son of Harry and Dora (Samuels) Weiss.
Student, Johns Hopkins, 1937; Bachelor of Arts, George Washington University, 1947; Doctor of Medicine Columbia, 1951; Master of Arts (honorary), Dartmouth, 1964.
Intern Columbia division Bellevue Hospital, 1951, assistant resident medicine, 1953. Resident psychiatry New York Psychiatric Institute, 1954-1956. Assistant attending Vanderbilt Clinic, 1957-1958, Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1958-1959.
Chief psychiatry Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, 1959-1970. Career teacher trainee National Institute Mental Health, 1956-1958. Teacher, research Columbia College Physical and Surgical, 1956-1959.
Professor psychiatry, founder department psychiatry, chairman department Dartmouth Medical School, 1959-1970. Psychiatrist Beth Israel Hospital, 1988-1990. Attending physician Presbyterian Hospital, 1975-1985, consultant, from 1985.
Visiting professor community medicine Harvard Medical School, 1970-1975, associate director community health, 1970-1975, associate dean health care planning. Professor psychiatry and social medicine Columbia College Physicians and Surgeons, 1975-1986, also director Centers for Community Health, 1975-1986. De Lamar professor public health practice, dean Columbia University School Public Health, 1980-1986, dean and De Lamar professor of public health practice, professor psychiatry, professor social medicine, professor emeritus, since 1986, dean emeritus, since 1996.
Visiting professor community medicine University New Mexico Medical School, 1986-1989. Adjunct professor arts and science University Maine, Orono, since 1997. Consultant National Center for Health Services Research, 1975-1986, National Institute of Mental Health, 1977-1986.
Chairman psychiatry training committee National Institute of Mental Health, 1967-1968, member coordinator panel, 1965-1967, ad hoc committee interdisciplinary training program, 1966, member agenda committee, 1966. Consultant American Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1990-1992. Chairman board Academica, 1992, Employee Managed Care Corporation, 1994-1996.
Principal Weiss, Baldacci & Fletcher. Member committee trade treaties State Senate, 2004-2008.
Founder department psychiatry Dartmouth Medical School, 1959. Served to major Army of the United States, 1941-1946. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (life).
Member American Association Chairman Departments Psychiatry (president 1979-1980).
Married Minnie Thompson Moore, April 21, 1945. Children– Scott Tillman, James Woodrow, Elizabeth Thompson.