Biography
Anna Weiss is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and an associate professor of clinical pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an associate program director for the CHOP Pediatric Residency Program and is the director for research in education in the Division of Emergency Medicine. She is co-founder and director of the Center for Leadership and Innovation in Medical Education (CLIME) at CHOP.
Dr. Weiss received her bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Harvard University and an M.Sc. in Russian and European Studies from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She received her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed residency training in pediatrics at CHOP, where she served an additional year as chief resident. Dr. Weiss completed fellowship training in pediatric emergency medicine at CHOP, thereafter joining the faculty as a member of the Emergency Department attending staff. She received her M.S.Ed. in Medical Education from Penn GSE.
Her scholarship interests include innovative curricular design, assessment of procedural and clinical competence, and the role of trainee and educator identity in affecting trainee outcomes and shaping the clinical learning environment. Dr. Weiss is a frequent speaker on professional development topics ranging from teaching skills and instructional methods to education research methodologies, to techniques for team- and self-management.