Gary Weissman, MD, MSHP

Fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care

Gary Weissman, MD, MSHP is a Fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his undergraduate degree in Physics at Dartmouth College, received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, and completed a residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. During his residency he trained in both the Primary Care and Global Health Tracks, which included clinical work at the Penn Refugee Clinic and Puentes de Salud in Philadelphia, and at the Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana. Prior to attending medical school he worked as a technology strategy consultant for non-profit organizations in Philadelphia, as the founder of a rural internet cafe in El Salvador, and as a research consultant at the Perelman School of Medicine developing computer models of screening decisions in women at high risk for breast cancer. His current research interests include the longitudinal pathways of critically ill patients, use of real-time technology solutions to improve care in the ICU, and the practice of low-resource critical care. His methodological interests include network analysis, natural language processing, and machine learning.