Angela Christine Weyand, MD

Dr. Weyand is a native of Kansas City, Kansas and graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where she completed her bachelors in economics and communication studies, as well as her post baccalaureate pre-medical studies. She attended medical school at the University of Michigan and completed her pediatrics residency at the University of Washington/Seattle Children's Hospital. She then returned to the University of Michigan for pediatric hematology and oncology fellowship and subsequently stayed on as faculty.

Clinically, her focus is in von Willebrand disease and young women and girls with bleeding or clotting disorders. She is co-director of a combined hematology/gynecology program dedicated to the care of adolescents with disorders of hemostasis. Her research interests are in elimination of race and sex-based reference intervals in hematology, women and girls with bleeding disorders, hormone provoked thrombosis, and von Willebrand disease. In addition to her interests in hemostasis, she is an active user of social media (specifically Twitter) for medical education, advocacy and collaboration. She is founder of #HCWvsHunger, a Twitter based fundraiser that has raised over $787,000 for anti-hunger organizations.