Sheila Weiss Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Department
University of Maryland Baltimore

Sheila Weiss Smith received a B.S. in Biology from University of Maine, Orono, an M.S. in Exercise Sciences from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Pharmacoepidemiology and Regulatory Sciences at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and University of Maryland.

Dr. Weiss Smith teaches Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology methods to pharmacy and doctoral students. Her research focuses on pharmaceutical risk; risk identification, risk management, and risk perception. Current research includes risk perception in pregnancy, quantification of the risk-benefit balance, and data mining techniques in signal generation.  She is a consultant to industry and government on pharmaceutical risk issues. She is a fellow in the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) and currently on the ISPE Board of Directors. Dr. Weiss Smith is on the editorial board for the journal Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy.