Vivian Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.

Vivian Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. of Vanderbilt University Medical Center is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology. Dr. Weiss attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD to obtain her M.D. and Ph.D. in immunology. During her Ph.D. training, Vivian received the American Association for Cancer Research Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for her work in tumor immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee.  After completing this training, she began theVanderbiltUniversity Pathology ResidencyTraining Programfor anatomic and clinical pathology, followed by a fellowship in cytopathology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is board certified in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Cytopathology. Her clinical practice focuses on diagnosis of fine needle aspirations, particularly of the thyroid gland. She was the 2017 recipient of the American Society of Cytopathology Young Investigator Award for her work on the molecular and immunologic mechanisms of thyroid cancer using next generation sequencing and computational immunogenomics. Vivian’s translational research laboratory studies the role of Wnt signaling in aggressive thyroid cancer subtypes in order to improve the current diagnostic algorithms and therapy for this disease.