{{short description|American pathologist}} {{about||the American professor of electrical engineering and physics|Sharon M. Weiss}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Sharon W. Weiss | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1945|06}} | birth_place = Lynn, Massachusetts | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = | ethnicity = | fields = Medicine & Pathology | workplaces = | alma_mater = Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Research in Soft Tissue Pathology and Surgical pathology. | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | awards = Maude Abbott Lecture and Award, Lifetime Achievement Award (United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Wellesley Alumnae Achievement Award, Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars (distinguished alumna), A James French Professor of Diagnostic Pathology (University of Michigan) | religion = | signature = | footnotes = }}
'''Sharon Ann Whelan Weiss'''<ref name = "cap">{{cite web|url=http://www.uscap.org/about/history/past-presidents/sharon-weiss|title=Sharon Ann Whelan Weiss, 1997-98|work=United States College of American Pathologists|accessdate=24 April 2017|archive-date=28 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328041200/https://www.uscap.org/about/history/past-presidents/sharon-weiss|url-status=dead}}</ref> is an American pathologist who is best known for her contribution to the subspecialty of soft tissue pathology. She is the main author of ''Soft Tissue Tumors'',<ref name="amazon">{{cite book|title=Enzinger and Weiss's Soft Tissue Tumors, 5e|first1=Sharon W. Weiss|last1=MD|first2=John R. Goldblum MD FCAP FASCP|last2=FACG|first3=Andrew L. Folpe|last3=MD|date=14 December 2007|publisher=Mosby|isbn = 978-0323046282}}</ref> one of the most widely used textbooks in the field of sarcoma and soft tissue pathology. She is also well known for her seminal descriptions of multiple soft tissue tumors, such as epithelioid hemangioendothelioma and pleomorphic hyalinizing angiectatic tumor of soft parts ("PHAT" which is categorized as a rare and locally aggressive neoplasm occurring in the lower extremities of a patient)<ref>Yamamoto A., Kikuchi Y., Abe S., Ishida T., Kaminaga T. High FDG Uptake in Pleomorphic Hyalinizing Angiectatic Tumor. ''Clin. Nucl. Med..'' 2020;45(5):407-409. doi:10.1097/RLU.0000000000003001</ref> among others. She has also mentored and trained other well-known soft tissue pathologists.<ref name="Emory">{{cite web|url=http://pathology.emory.edu/AdminFacultyMember.cfm?Name_seq=423|title=Pathology Faculty Member|website=pathology.emory.edu|access-date=2010-09-23|archive-date=2018-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414171853/http://pathology.emory.edu/AdminFacultyMember.cfm?Name_seq=423|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Weiss was born in 1945 in Lynn, Massachusetts, the oldest of six children. Her father was an Army surgeon.<ref name="Wellesley Bio"/> She received her undergraduate education at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she graduated with a B.A. in 1966. Upon graduation she married fellow physician Bernard Weiss.<ref name="Wellesley Bio"/> She received her medical education at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (M.D., 1971) and residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1972–1975) in Baltimore, Maryland.<ref name="Emory" /> She was the first female to serve as Chief Resident of Pathology in the history of the hospital.<ref name="NLM Bio">{{cite web|url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Weiss_Sharon.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829005058/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Weiss_Sharon.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 29, 2006|title=biography - Sharon Weiss, MD (Georgia)|website=www.nlm.nih.gov}}</ref>
==Career== From 1976 to 1989 she worked as a soft tissue pathologist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) under the mentoring of Dr. Franz Enzinger, one of the fathers of the field of soft tissue pathology. In 1989 she moved to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she served as the A. James French Professor of Pathology, Director of Anatomic Pathology, and Chief of Surgical Pathology.<ref name = "cap"/> In 1998 she became Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.<ref name="Wellesley Bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.wellesley.edu/Alum/Awards/AAA/winners/weiss.html|title=Wellesley College Alumnae Association|website=www.wellesley.edu|access-date=2010-11-03|archive-date=2010-08-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824233842/http://www.wellesley.edu/alum/Awards/AAA/winners/weiss.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> She is the director of the expert consultation service at Emory University Hospital, where she provides diagnostic second opinions on sarcomas and other soft tissue pathology cases.<ref name="Emory Consult">{{cite web|url=http://pathology.emory.edu/ExpertConsultation_Forms.html|title=Expert Consultation / Second Opinion|website=pathology.emory.edu}}{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> She is also the Associate Dean for Faculty Development, a position she has held since 2006.<ref name="Emory SOM">[http://www.med.emory.edu/dean/weiss.cfm Emory School of Medicine Faculty Bio] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208203952/http://med.emory.edu/dean/weiss.cfm |date=2011-02-08 }}</ref>
==Professional involvement and honors== Weiss served as President of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (1997–1998) and currently serves as a Trustee of the American Board of Pathology (2005 to present).<ref name="Emory"/>
==Initial characterization of new soft tissue pathologic entities== Her contributions to the field have been described as "monumental".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hastings|first1=Hope|last2=Goldblum|first2=John R.|date=March 13, 2017|title=Perspectives on Low-grade Sarcomas: The Extraordinary Contributions of Sharon W. Weiss, MD.|journal=Advances in Anatomic Pathology|volume=24|issue=4|pages=195–200|doi=10.1097/PAP.0000000000000145|pmid=28291056|s2cid=4297802}}</ref> She was the first to describe/characterize the following soft tissue pathologic entities: *Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma(1982)<ref name="Weiss 1982">{{cite journal |pages=970–81 |doi=10.1002/1097-0142(19820901)50:5<970::AID-CNCR2820500527>3.0.CO;2-Z |title=Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma a vascular tumor often mistaken for a carcinoma |year=1982 |last1=Weiss |first1=Sharon W. |last2=Enzinger |first2=F. M. |journal=Cancer |volume=50 |issue=5 |pmid=7093931|doi-access= }}</ref> *Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma(1993)<ref name="Zukerberg 1993">{{cite journal |pmid=8494101 |year=1993 |last1=Zukerberg |first1=Lawrence R. |last2=Nickoloff |first2=Brian J. |last3=Weiss |first3=Sharon W. |title=Kaposiform Hemangioendothelioma of Infancy and Childhood: An Aggressive Neoplasm Associated with Kasabach-Merritt Syndrome and Lymphangiomatosis |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=321–8 |journal=The American Journal of Surgical Pathology |doi=10.1097/00000478-199304000-00001|s2cid=29513482 }}</ref> *Myxoid variant of malignant fibrous histiocytoma (myxofibrosarcoma)(1977)<ref name="Cancer 1977">{{cite journal |doi=10.1002/1097-0142(197704)39:4<1672::AID-CNCR2820390442>3.0.CO;2-C |title=Myxoid variant of malignant fibrous histiocytoma |year=1977 |last1=Weiss |first1=Sharon Whelan |last2=Enzinger |first2=F. M. |journal=Cancer |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=1672–85 |pmid=192434|doi-access= }}</ref> *Neuroblastoma-like Neurilemoma (Schwannoma)<ref name="AJSP 1994">{{cite journal |year=1994 |last1=Goldblum |first1=JR |last2=Beals |first2=TF |last3=Weiss |first3=SW |title=Neuroblastoma-like neurilemoma |volume= 18|issue=3 |pages=266–73 |journal=The American Journal of Surgical Pathology |pmid=8116794 |doi=10.1097/00000478-199403000-00006|s2cid=46019887 }}</ref> *Palisaded Myofibroblastoma (1989),<ref name="Weiss 1986">{{cite journal |pages=341–6 |doi=10.1097/00000478-198905000-00001 |title=Palisaded Myofibroblastoma |year=1989 |last1=Weiss |first1=Sharon W. |last2=Gnepp |first2=Douglas R. |last3=Bratthauer |first3=Gary L. |journal=The American Journal of Surgical Pathology |volume=13 |issue=5 |pmid=2712186|s2cid=19326297 }}</ref> described earlier that year by Saul Suster *Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor *Pleomorphic hyalinizing angiectatic tumor of soft parts (so-called "PHAT")(1996)<ref name="Smith 1996">{{cite journal |pages=21–9 |doi=10.1097/00000478-199601000-00002 |title=Pleomorphic Hyalinizing Angiectatic Tumor of Soft Parts |year=1996 |last1=Smith |first1=Mark E. F. |last2=Fisher |first2=Cyril |last3=Weiss |first3=Sharon W. |journal=The American Journal of Surgical Pathology |volume=20 |pmid=8540605 |issue=1}}</ref> *Sclerosing Rhabdomyosarcoma (2002) *Spindle cell hemangioma (formerly spindle cell hemangioendothelioma)(1986)<ref name="Weiss 1986"/><ref name="Weiss 1996">{{cite journal |pages=1196–204 |doi=10.1097/00000478-199610000-00004 |title=Spindle Cell Hemangioendothelioma |year=1996 |last1=Perkins |first1=Philip |last2=Weiss |first2=Sharon W. |journal=The American Journal of Surgical Pathology |volume=20 |issue=10 |pmid=8827025}}</ref>
==See also== *List of pathologists
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