Stuart Harris

As the founder and Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Wilderness Medicine, Dr. Harris offers more than twenty years of experience in emergency medicine, clinical research, and the interplay between environment and human health. Dr. Harris is a full-time attending physician in the MGH Emergency Department, an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an affiliated faculty member at the Arctic Initiative at the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Dr. Harris graduated from the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency in 2003. His research focuses on investigating the pathogenesis and treatment of high-altitude illness and on the interplay between climate change and human health. His research teams are active on/in the Himalayas, Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Andes, Alaska, and far Eastern Siberia and have been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. DOD, MGH, and HMS.

Dr. Harris has been nominated for the MGH McGovern Award for Clinical Excellence, was awarded the 2010 NOLS Alumni Service Award, the Symbols of Hope Award, and the John E. Thayer III Award by the Japan Society of Boston and he is a National Fellow of The Explorers’ Club.