Staff Research Physician
National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
Stephanie T. Weiss, MD PhD is the staff Research Physician serving the Translational Addiction Medicine Branch (TAMB) of the NIDA Intramural Research Program. After earning a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry, Dr. Weiss received her medical degree from Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. As an addiction toxicologist, she is board certified in emergency medicine, addiction medicine, and medical toxicology, a subspecialty that cares for patients with poisonings, environmental exposures, and overdoses. Dr. Weiss assumes responsibility for providing optimal, safe, and ethical care to study participants and clinical support toward the TAMB mission conducting inpatient and outpatient proof-of-concept human laboratory studies. Her research interests include novel psychoactive substances, medication misuse, and improving interpretation of urine drug testing.
