Myrna Milgram Weissman is Diane Goldman Kemper Family Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and Chief of the Division of Translational Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

They co-authored with Bruce Rounsaville and Eva Chevron the influential volume Interpersonal Psychotherapy of Depression: A Brief, Focused, Specific Strategy.

[6] Other books co-authored by Weissman, including The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition,[7] offered further developments of their psychotherapeutic approach.

Weissman and Klerman were jointly honored by the National Academy of Medicine in 1994 as recipients of the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health.

[14] Her early work, in collaboration with Gerald Klerman, focused on the efficacy of interpersonal therapy as treatment for major depression and other disorders.

[19] Weissman led a cross-national study of the epidemiology of major depression and bipolar disorder, which documented many similarities in the diagnosis of depression and bipolar disorder across countries, including the United States, Canada, France, West Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Taiwan, Korea, and New Zealand.

[23] In the same year, she was selected by the American College of Epidemiology as 1 of 19 epidemiologists in the United States who has had an impact on public policy and health.