Ilene Ceil Weitz MD

Dr. Ilene C. Weitz is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC). Her practice sites include LAC+USC Medical Center, Keck Hospital of USC, and USC Norris Cancer Hospital. Dr. Weitz is board certified in Internal Medicine and Hematology. Dr. Weitz earned her medical degree at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, followed by an internship and residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She conducted a fellowship in hematology/oncology at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California. 
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Dr. Weitz is a member of the Academy-Simmons College Honor Society, Alpha Omega Alpha, American Medical Women's Association, Los Angeles County Medical Women’s Association, Alumni Associations of Medical College of Pennsylvania, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, American Society of Hematology, and American Society of Clinical Oncology. She received the Morris Press Humanism Award in 1987 and the “Golden Apple” Outstanding Physician Educator Award in 1990 from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, as well as the Outstanding Voluntary Faculty Award in the Division of Hematology from the USC School of Medicine. 

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Dr. Weitz has delivered nationwide lectures and has been published in numerous journals, including the American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Hepatology, and Journal of Clinical Oncology, American Journal of Hematology. She has also contributed eight book chapters or reviews. Dr. Weitz’s research and clinical interests include hematologic disorders such as anemias, thrombocytopenia, and white blood cell disorders, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), immune-mediated anemias and thrombocytopenia, thrombosis and hemostasis.