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Chair of Pediatrics
Dell Medical School, UT-Austin/Dell Children's Hospital
Austin, Texas
Z. Leah Harris, M.D., is a professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin and the Director of the Dell Pediatric Research Institute. She also serves as physician-in-chief at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas.
Prior to joining Dell Med, she served as chief of the Division of Critical Care Medicine at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, vice chair for faculty affairs, the endowed Krehbiel Professorship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Harris completed her residency, chief residency and fellowship training in pediatric critical care medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Her first faculty appointment was as an instructor of pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at Washington University-St. Louis. There, she successfully competed for and received her K08 and R01 from the NIDDK/NIH to study the role of iron in human biology (1994-2001). In 2001, she joined Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, where she went on to be the fellowship director for pediatric critical care medicine and held a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2009, Harris was recruited to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, where she was vice chair for academic affairs in the Department of Pediatrics.
Her areas of interest include transition metal biology, nutrition, medical education and inter-professional development. She is a fellow graduate of the 17th Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine class (2012) from Drexel University College of Medicine.
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Thursday, April 21, 2022
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