Barry D. Weiss, MD

Barry D. Weiss is a professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. A longtime member of the faculty, he is also a former chairman of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and served in the past as an affiliate professor on the faculty of the University of Alaska Department of Health Sciences.

Dr Weiss has extensive experience as a medical journal editor. He served for 18 years (1992-2010) as editor of Family Medicine, national journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. From 2007 to 2024, he was medical editor of FP Essentials, the monthly clinical monograph published by the American Academy of Family Physicians. And he continues his editorial work as an associate medical editor of American Family Physician.

Dr. Weiss is author of more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals. He was also series editor of McGraw-Hill's 20 Common Problems textbooks, which included Dr. Weiss's books on 20 Common Problems in Primary Care and 20 Common Surgical Problems in Primary Care.

His research interests have centered on patient-physician communication, with an emphasis on health literacy. His work in this area has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, and a variety of other books and medical journals. In his work on health literacy, Dr Weiss has served as a consultant to and on national committees for the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, the Institute of Medicine, the Joint Commission, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians, and the American Medical Association.

Dr. Weiss and his wife, Joyce, are avid tandem bicyclists, hikers, and backpackers – activities they’ve been lucky enough to do all over the world.