Stephen S. Weigt, MD

Preferred Name: S. Samuel Weigt

Dr. Sam Weigt is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He is also the director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Center and Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Care Center at UCLA.

He is a graduate of Creighton University School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. degree. He then did his residency training in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care at UCLA. He earned his Master of Science in clinical research through the Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Dr. Weigt joined the faculty at UCLA in 2008. Dr. Weigt is an attending physician in the Interstitial Lung Disease Center, the Lung Transplant Program, and on the Advanced Lung Disease inpatient consult service at UCLA. Dr.Weigt is also an active researcher who studies interstitial lung disease and lung transplant rejection.