Dr. Joshua Weiss is an Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University. He received his BSc in Biochemistry from McGill University and his MD degree from the University of Manitoba. He completed his residency training at McMaster University, and served as Chief Resident in Family Medicine in his final year. Thereafter, Dr. Weiss accepted a position as a supervising hospitalist at the Brant Community Healthcare System, where he teaches McMaster University medical residents and medical students. In addition to teaching, Dr. Weiss has been the lead investigator for the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ Spontaneous Remission Annotated Bibliography (SRB) project since 2012. This IONS project has been ongoing since its initial publication in 1993 as the standard text on cancer and chronic disease spontaneous remission. Presently, the SRB team is in its final stages of updating the world’s only comprehensive database of spontaneous remission cases (Dr. Weiss can be seen discussing his findings in a documentary film to be released on a major streaming service in summer 2020). Furthermore, Dr. Weiss is the founder of the Life Medicine clinic, where he is pioneering the use of lifestyle medicine and group psychotherapy treatments for Canadians with chronic medical and mental health diagnoses (more details available at www.lifemedicine.ca). He is also a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher and an avid Toronto Raptors fan.
