Dr. Samantha Harris joined the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in June 2024. She grew up on Long Island, New York, before attending Tufts University in Boston, where she graduated summa cum laude with the highest thesis honors with a bachelor’s degree in biology. After she graduated college, she moved to Madison, Wisconsin, and worked for Epic Systems, where she specialized in operating room software and focused on client leadership engagement and process improvement of surgical patient workflows. This experience at Epic inspired her to learn more about technology and business in health care. She returned to Boston for a joint MD/MBA degree at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School, respectively, during which time she also interned at the insurance company Humana, working on a machine learning project to identify trends to improve long-term quality outcomes for patients. Dr. Harris completed her internal medicine internship and residency at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis/Barnes Jewish Hospital in 2021–2024.
Education
- BS, Biology: Tufts University, Medford, MA (2014)
- Medical Doctor: Harvard Medical School, Boston MA (2021)
- MBA: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (2021)
Research Interests
Studying the impact of technology on healthcare
Publications
Pahalyants V, Murphy W, Harris ST, Gunasekera N, Nambudiri VE. Internationally educated dermatologists in the active Medicare workforce. International Journal of Dermatology. 2022 Jun;61(6):e220-e223. DOI: 10.1111/ijd.15715. PMID: 34152610.
Harris ST, Patorno E, Zhuo M, Kim SC, Paik JM. Prescribing Trends of Antidiabetes Medications in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Kidney Disease, a Cohort Study. Diabetes Care. 2021 Aug 3;44(10):2293–301. doi: 10.2337/dc21-0529. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34344714; PMCID: PMC8929186.
Murphy, W.S., Harris, S.T., Pahalyants, V., Zaki, M.M., Lin, B., Cheng, T., Talmo, C., Murphy, S.B. (2019, Sep). Alternating operating room utilization is not associated with differences in clinical or economic outcome measures in primary elective knee arthroplasty. Bone & Joint Journal, 101-B(9), 1081-1086.
Murphy, W.S., Harris, S.T., Lin, B., Cheng, S., & Murphy, S.B. (2019, Sep). Early Reoperation After Total Hip Arthroplasty: Incidence, Causes, Cost in the US Medicare Population. Orthopedic Proceedings, 101-B(SUPP_12), 40.
Kim, J.C., Harris, S.T., Dinter, T., Shah, K.A., & Mirkin, S.M. (2017, Jan). The role of break-induced replication in large-scale expansions of (CAG)n/(CTG)n repeats. Nature Structure & Molecular Biology, 24(1), 55-60.
Abstracts
Murphy, W.S., Harris, S.T., Pahalyants, V., Zaki, M.M., Lin, B., Cheng, T., Talmo, C., Murphy, S.B. (2019, October 01). Alternating operating room utilization is not associated with differences in clinical or economic outcome measures in primary elective knee arthroplasty [Poster presented]. International Society of Technology in Arthroplasty/Toronto, ON, CAN
Kim, J.C., Harris, S.T., & Mirkin, S.M. (2015, September 01). Break induced replication drives large-scale expansions of CAG/CTG trinucleotide repeats in budding yeast [Poster presented]. Eukaryotic DNA Replication & Genome Maintenance/Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
Kim, J.C., Harris, S.T., Shah, K.A., & Mirkin, S.M. (2013, September 01). Balancing act of DNA repeat expansions: Investigating large-scale CAG/CTG repeat expansions in budding yeast [Poster presented]. Eukaryotic DNA Replication and Genome Maintenance Conference/Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.