Jennifer M. Weiss M.D.

About

Jennifer Weiss, M.D. is an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in pediatric orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine. She actively writes and speaks on the topic of women in medicine. She has served on the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Board of Directors, and she teaches communication skills to physicians throughout the Southern California Region of Kaiser Permanente. Her research is widely published, and she is a leader and speaker within the medical community nationally and internationally.

Growing up as the daughter of an orthopaedic surgeon, Jennifer saw first-hand how male-dominated the world of medicine is. Throughout medical school, she encountered few female students and fewer women that were aspiring to become orthopaedic surgeons. From the start, it has always been her goal to help aspiring women become successful surgeons—and to inspire women to enter the field of surgery and not be intimidated by this largely male profession.

Recent Posts

Graduation Musings: Maintaining Purpose Throughout a Career

Personal Perspective: Lessons to my 31-year-old self. You will find your voice and your purpose as a woman in orthopaedic surgery.

The Loss of Dignity in Medicine

A Personal Perspective: How can we stave off the extinction of a respectful healthcare culture?

Healthcare in Crisis: How Are We Best Heard?

A Personal Perspective: If physicians disengage, we will be divided and disabled from all that we need to give good care to our patients.

A Grieving Surgeon on Setting Boundaries

Where do physicians draw the line between taking care of other people and taking care of ourselves and our families?

Outgrowing People-Pleasing as a Woman in Surgery

Coming up as a young woman, things were so much easier as a pleaser. Graduating into middle age demands the risk of being unlikeable.

# This Is Our Shot

As physicians and clinicians decline the vaccine, my head hurts trying to understand the downstream effects. I am numb and tired, discouraged and angry. Yet I plod along.

Don't Blame the Canary

We cannot continue to rely on physician resilience. Our profession is becoming more brutal, and we cannot keep relying on physician professionalism to bridge the gaps.

I Stand With My Sisters in Surgery

Female surgeons do not deserve to be trolled and judged in the name of “research.”

Masks: Your Doctors Don't Have Enough

Your doctors and nurses are committed. But we are not protected.

Let It Be Said That We Tried to Do What Is Right

As doctors in unprecedented times, we have to listen to our own moral compass.