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Sharon Weiss received her undergraduate training at Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1966.
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She is the main author of Soft Tissue Tumors, one of the most widely used textbooks in the field of sarcoma and soft tissue pathology. Doctor Weiss is also well known for her seminal descriptions of multiple soft tissue tumors, such as epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, pleomorphic hyalinizing angiectatic tumor of soft parts ("PHAT") among others She is also noted for mentoring and training other well-known soft tissue pathologists.
This was followed by medical education at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Doctor of Medicine granted in 1971) and residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1972–1975) in Baltimore, Maryland.
She was the first female to serve as Chief Resident of Pathology in the history of the hospital. Sharon Weiss spent many years training and working as a soft tissue pathologist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology under the mentoring of Doctor Franz Enzinger, one of the fathers of the field of soft tissue pathology.
Following her work at the AFIP, she relocated to the University of Michigan Department of Pathology, where she worked for some years before moving to her current position as Professor of Pathology at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Doctor Weiss is currently the director of the expert consultation service at Emory University Hospital, where she provides diagnostic second opinions on sarcomas and other soft tissue pathology cases.
She is also the Associate Dean for Faculty Development, a position she has held since 2006.
Doctor Doctor Weiss was the first to describe/characterize the following soft tissue pathologic entities: Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma(1982) Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma(1993) Myxoid variant of malignant fibrous histiocytoma (myxofibrosarcoma)(1977) Neuroblastoma-like Neurilemoma (Schwannoma) Palisaded Myofibroblastoma (1989), described earlier that year by Saul Suster Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor Pleomorphic hyalinizing angiectatic tumor of soft parts (so-called "PHAT")(1996) Sclerosing Rhabdomyosarcoma (2002) Spindle cell hemangioma (formerly spindle cell hemangioendothelioma)(1986).
