Instructor of Medicine
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Dept of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School
Maria Schneeweiss, MD, is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and associate epidemiologist in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Connecting the two core disciplines of Dermatology and Pharmacoepidemiology is central to her work, and she is co-director of the Dermatology-Pharmacoepidemiology (Derm-PE) Program at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology. Her research focuses on analyzing national healthcare databases to study the comparative safety and effectiveness of systemic medications to treat chronic inflammatory skin diseases and the related comorbidity burden.
Dr. Schneeweiss received an undergraduate degree (magna cum laude) from Boston College and a Doctor of Medicine from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed a 2-year dermatology-pharmacoepidemiology research fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Department of Dermatology and Medicine (Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics), where she was recognized as a runner-up for the 2021 Sternfels Prize for Drug Safety Discoveries.