Dr. Samantha Harris joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in June 2024. She grew up on Long Island, New York before attending Tufts University in Boston where she graduated summa cum laude with 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 Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis/Barnes Jewish Hospital 2021 – 2024. Her research interests include studying the impact of technology on healthcare.
More specifically she has analyzed the impact of remote patient monitoring in a local population, and is currently studying the uptake of telemedicine in a Medicare population, and the impact of an EKG application to improve detection of occlusion myocardial infarctions. In her spare time, she enjoys trying as many St. Louis restaurants as she can (she’s gone to over 100!), walking her dog, playing pickleball, and trying to travel to at least one new country every year.