Ashley Weiss, DO, MPH
Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry
Education & Affiliations
Biography
Years at Tulane:
Since 2013
Dr. Weiss is a psychiatrist who has a wide range of clinical and academic interests. Clinically, she has focused on developing the only early psychosis intervention service for the New Orleans community, which includes a psychosis treatment arm as well as a community psychosis early detection campaign. Dr. Weiss developed and founded the Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic (EPIC-NOLA) in August 2015, which is focused on providing comprehensive care for adolescents and young adults experiencing their first episode of psychosis associated with emergence of severe mental illnesses, mainly the schizophrenia-spectrum illnesses. In parallel to the EPIC-NOLA clinic, she also launched CALM-Clear Answers to Louisiana Mental Health, in Spring 2016. CALM is a psychosis early detection campaign aimed at increasing community awareness of psychosis, debunking myths surrounding psychosis, and fundraising to enhance activities for those in treatment for first-episode psychosis. Dr. Weiss also provides acute inpatient psychiatric care at the University Medical Center, where she is involved in teaching psychiatry residents and medical students.
Contributions
2022 Chaudhry, S. Weiss, A. Roy, R. Hansel T. A Systemic Review of Psychosis in Social Work Literature. Social Work in Mental Health. In press
2021 Weiss, A., Steadman, S., Samburg, H., Chaudhry, S. et al. Pathways to Care: How Help-Seeking Behaviors Relate to Duration of Untreated Psychosis and Treatment Engagement. Psychiatric Quarterly, 2021 Oct 20. doi: 10.1007/s11126-021-09960-5. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34669120
2021 Weiss, A., Kelly, C. Threshold for Repeated Competency Evaluations. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online Sept 2021, 49 (3) 430-432; DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.210079-21
2021 Chaudhry, S., Weiss, A. Garrett, M. Surdis, C. Capgras Syndrome: In the Conscious and the Unconscious Mind: A Case Report. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, JNMD-D-21-00227R1 In Press
2021 Chaudhry, S., Weiss A., Dillon, G., O'Shea, A., Hansel TC. Psychosis, Telehealth and COVID-19: Successes and Lessons Learned from the First Wave of the Pandemic. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2021 Feb 16:1-4. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2021.42. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33588969; PMCID: PMC8129681.
2021 Weiss, A., Chaudhry, S., Cahill, J. D., & Srihari, V. H. Establishing the Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic, New Orleans (EPIC-NOLA): Sustainability Challenges Threaten Clinical Success. Journal of Health care for the Poor and Underserved, 2021;32(1):8-17. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2021.0003. PMID: 33678676.
Through her position as Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, her academic interests include developing a progressive medical education curriculum in psychiatry for medical students, while teaching future physicians to develop a whole-person approach to patients. Dr. Weiss also provides supervision and teaching to psychiatry residents and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows. She maintains a strong connection to the New Orleans community and is committed to providing care for the underserved.
For more information about psychosis and intervention, please visit us at www.calmnola.org
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