Diane J. Weiss, MD, MPH, Psychiatrist, Expert Witness

With over 40 years' experience in psychiatry, including decades providing expert witness litigation support, IMEs regarding psychiatric aspects of harassment (sexual/gender-based/racial), employment law, and/or injuries/accidents related to Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation issues, Dr. Weiss is well known for her comprehensive, fact-based, persuasive reports.

Dr. Weiss' unique ability to establish exceptional rapport with clients allows for thoughtful, thorough examinations, leaving no stone unturned. As everything affects the psyche, her keen attention to detail with complex medical-legal records enables her to integrate highly complex psychiatric histories and concepts, coming to evidence-based opinions, and providing high-caliber, usable medical-legal reporting and testimony.

Dr. Weiss has decades of diverse experience. Able to view a case through multiple lenses, she must consider what has happened prior to, since, and outside of an accident/incident, as well as uncovering details of the event(s) itself. She must be objective and look at the evidence which has been presented. It is important to consider how a person is functioning, and what is the status of their mental/psychological state. If there is evidence for psychiatric injury/pain and suffering, her ability to articulate a person's perspective, as well as how she, as the psychiatric expert, would understand the issues and their impacts on each individual case, is unparalleled.

Ultimately, whether Dr. Weiss' findings strengthen her client's case, or help to uncover weaknesses/deficiencies which need to be addressed, one can be confident that Dr. Weiss will provide a through, detailed psychiatric analysis based on medical evidence.

Dr. Weiss, well-traveled, fluent in both English and Spanish, holding a Master's Degree in Public Health and BA in Scandinavian Languages, easily facilitates robust connections with people from all walks of life. She is a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a Board Certified Psychiatrist, in private practice since 1988. Her expert witness work has involved employment law, concentrating in claims of emotional distress along with pain and suffering. Dr. Weiss provides litigation support in cases related to harassment (sexual/gender-based/racial), PTSD, as well as other personal injury/accident complaints.

Litigation Support Services

With over 40 years' experience in psychiatry, including decades providing expert witness litigation support, IMEs regarding psychiatric aspects of harassment (sexual/gender-based/racial), employment law, and/or injuries/accidents related to Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation issues, Dr. Weiss is well known for her comprehensive, fact-based, persuasive reports.

Dr. Weiss' unique ability to establish exceptional rapport with clients allows for thoughtful, thorough examinations, leaving no stone unturned. As everything affects the psyche, her keen attention to detail with complex medical-legal records enables her to integrate highly complex psychiatric histories and concepts, coming to evidence-based opinions, and providing high-caliber, usable medical-legal reporting and testimony.

Dr. Weiss has decades of diverse experience. Able to view a case through multiple lenses, she must consider what has happened prior to, since, and outside of an accident/incident, as well as uncovering details of the event(s) itself. She must be objective and look at the evidence which has been presented. It is important to consider how a person is functioning, and what is the status of their mental/psychological state. If there is evidence for psychiatric injury/pain and suffering, her ability to articulate a person's perspective, as well as how she, as the psychiatric expert, would understand the issues and their impacts on each individual case, is unparalleled.

Ultimately, whether Dr. Weiss' findings strengthen her client's case, or help to uncover weaknesses/deficiencies which need to be addressed, one can be confident that Dr. Weiss will provide a through, detailed psychiatric analysis based on medical evidence.

Dr. Weiss, well-traveled, fluent in both English and Spanish, holding a Master's Degree in Public Health and BA in Scandinavian Languages, easily facilitates robust connections with people from all walks of life. She is a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a Board Certified Psychiatrist, in private practice since 1988. Her expert witness work has involved employment law, concentrating in claims of emotional distress along with pain and suffering. Dr. Weiss provides litigation support in cases related to harassment (sexual/gender-based/racial), PTSD, as well as other personal injury/accident complaints.

Areas of Expertise

Additional Expertise:

ADA Discrimination; Adult Psychiatry; Anxiety Disorders; Bereavement/Loss; Depression; Depressive Disorders; Disability (Employment); Discrimination; Emotional Damages; Emotional Suffering; Employment Discrimination; Employment Psychiatry; Employment Related Claims; Employment Retaliation; Independent Medical Examiner (IME); Molestation; Pain & Suffering; Psychiatric Disability; Psychiatric Disorders; Psychiatric Evaluations; Psychiatric Pain & Suffering Evaluation; Psychiatric Personal Injury; Psychiatric Trauma; Psychological Injuries; Psychological Trauma; Sexual Harassment; Whistleblowing; Workplace Injuries; Wrongful Termination.

Areas Served

Expert Witness Litigation Support - All States

Professional Experience

Private, office-based solo practice in Beverly Hills, California, 1988-present: Psychiatry-psychotherapy, medication treatment
and evaluations, hypnoanalysis and hypnosis.

Expert witness litigation support: IMEs regarding psychiatric aspects of sexual/gender-based/racial harassment, employment law and/or accidents related to Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation issues.

Licenses

1985 - California State Medical License

Affiliations

American Psychiatric Association

California Medical Association

California Psychiatric Association

California Society of lndustrial Medicine and Surgery Los Angeles County Medical Association

The Psychiatric Clinical Faculty Association (PCFA)

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior

Southern California Psychiatric Society

Southern California Society for Clinical Hypnosis American

Academy of Medical Hypnoanalysis