Dr. Peter J. Weiss

I’m the old­est of four chil­dren raised by my par­ents in St. Peters­burg, Florida. Although I love Florida, I was excited go “up north” and to “the big city” for col­lege.  It wasn’t until many years later that I real­ized St. Louis wasn’t really “up north” and wasn’t “the big city.”

Nev­er­the­less, I loved it! I got to see a change of sea­sons that doesn’t hap­pen in Florida.  This was my first expo­sure to snow, sled­ding and “real win­ter.”  I enjoyed St. Louis so much that I stayed for med­ical school too, becom­ing a Car­di­nals base­ball fan in the process and attend­ing the World Series in 1982.  (Car­di­nals over the Brew­ers in seven games) I still have medical school and col­lege friends in St. Louis and try to get back every cou­ple of years.

Both of my broth­ers went to David­son Col­lege and my sis­ter attended Lenoir Rhyne Col­lege in North Car­olina.  One of my broth­ers also attended Duke Med­ical School and went on to be a plas­tic sur­geon in Ponte Vedre Beach, FL.  The other is a con­sul­tant with Deloitte.  My sis­ter became a sign lan­guage inter­preter.

I mar­ried Sharon, a for­mer Navy nurse, in 1988 in San Diego where we were sta­tioned for seven years.  Like any cou­ple, we have had our issues but have worked to make our rela­tion­ship strong.  We are both grate­ful for out two won­der­ful chil­dren, Alli­son and Kevin.

Cur­rently we live in Mel­bourne, Florida and I love it!  My hob­bies include gar­den­ing, boat­ing, fish­ing and gen­er­ally enjoy­ing the out­doors.  I attend East­min­ster Pres­by­ter­ian Church in Indialan­tic, Florida.

My work and life have now merged. My mis­sion is to help oth­ers by com­mu­ni­cating all that I’ve learned in life — from medial prac­tice, from lead­ing an insur­ance com­pany, from being a patient myself, and from work­ing through my own per­sonal issues.  I hope to be a guide, sup­porter and encour­ager to those who can learn from me.

Of course I am still learn­ing from oth­ers as well! I enjoy meet­ing new peo­ple and mak­ing new friends. Maybe we can learn some­thing from each other or we can just con­nect.

Sin­cerely,

Dr. Pete