Rebecca M. Harris, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory MedicinePerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Contact Information3401 Civic Center Blvd
5th Floor Main Building
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Education
B.S. (Biophysics), Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 2007
MD Medical University of South Carolina, 2011
Specialty Certification
American Board of Pathology in Clinical Pathology, 2014
American Board of Pathology in Medical Microbiology, 2015
Postgraduate Training
Resident in Clinical Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2011-2014
Fellow in Medical Microbiology, University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories,
Salt Lake City, Utah, 2014-2015
Awards and Honors
Russian Language Scholarship, Clemson University, 2005
Phi Beta Kappa, Clemson University, 2007
College of Medicine Dean's Award, Medical University of South Carolina, 2007-2011
Magna Cum Laude, Clemson University, 2007
General Honors, Clemson University, 2007
Suzann Pershing Achievement Award, Medical University of South Carolina, 2007
Infectious Disease Society of America Medical Scholar, 2008
Memberships and Professional Organizations
College of American Pathologists, 2012 - 2018
American Society for Microbiology, 2013 - Present
Infectious Diseases Society of American, 2015 - Present
American Association for Clinical Chemistry, 2016 - Present
Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists, 2018 - 2022
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2020 - 2020
American Board of Pathology, 2023 - Present
Web Links
Selected Publications
Impact of a tracheal aspirate culture diagnostic test stewardship intervention in a tertiary care PICU
Kathleen Chiotos, Giyoung Lee, Guy Sydney, Charlotte Woods-Hill, Heather Wolfe, Hannah R. Stinson, Joseph Piccione, Jennifer Blumenthal, Garrett Keim, Danielle Traynor, Aaditya Dudhia, Ashley Doll, Rebecca M. Harris, Jeffrey Gerber, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 2024
Genotypic Investigation of a Rotavirus Cluster at a Quaternary Pediatric Hospital
Eimear Kitt, Hee-won Yoon, Courtney E. Comar, Kenneth P. Smith, Rebecca Harris, Mathew D. Esona, Rashi Gautam, Slavica Mijatovic-Rustempasic, Amy Hopkins, Jose Jaimes, Lori K. Handy, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 2023, PMID:36691772
Persistent Increased Invasive Pediatric Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus) Infections with Correlated Increase in Superficial Infection and Pharyngitis (Poster)
Jameson Dowling, Sarah Smathers, Daphne Werz, Kenneth Smith, Rebecca Harris, Cecelia Harrison, Julia Sammons, Ericka Hayes, IDWeek - Boston, Massachusetts, 2023
Adenovirus is not detected in liver tissue from a historical multicenter cohort of children with acute liver failure
Catherine A Chapin, Tamir Diamond, Rebecca M Harris, Olivia Vaccaro, Kathleen Loomes, Estella M Alonso, Edward M Behrens, Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 77(3): 393-395, 2023
Listeria and Erysipelothrix
Rebecca M Harris, Kenneth P Smith, Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 13th Edition 1(): , 2023
Adenovirus is not detected in liver tissue from a large multicenter cohort of children with acute liver failure (Poster)
Catherine A. Chapin, Kathleen M Loomes, Tamir Diamond, Rebecca M. Harris, Olivia Vaccaro, Katie Neighbors, Edward M Behrens, The Liver Meeting - Washington, DC, 2022
Genotypic investigation of a rotavirus cluster at a pediatric hospital in 2022 (Poster)
Hee-won Yoon, Eimear Kitt, Kenneth Smith, Courtney Comar, Rebecca Harris, Amy Hopkins, Jose Jaimes, Slavica Mijatovic Rustempasic, Rashi Gautam, Mathew D. Esona, Lori Handy, IDWeek - Washington, DC, 2022
An international, interlaboratory ring trial confirms the feasibility of an extraction-less “direct” RT-qPCR method for reliable detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in clinical samples
Margaret G Mills, Emily Bruce, Meei-Li Huang, Jessica W Crothers, Ollivier Hyrien, Christopher A L Oura, Lemar Blake, Arianne Brown Jordan, Susan Hester, Leah Wehmas, Bernard Mari, Pascal Barby, Caroline Lacoux, Julien Fassy, Pablo Vial, Cecilia Vial, Jose R W Martinez, Olusola Olalekan Oladipo, Bitrus Inuwa, Ismaila Shittu, Clement A Meseko, Roger Chammas, Carlos Ferreira Santos, Thiago José Dionísio, Thais Francini Garbieri, Viviane Aparecida Parisi, Maria Cassia Mendes-Correa, Anderson V de Paula, Camila M Romano, Luiz Gustavo Bentim Góes, Paola Minoprio, Angelica C Campos, Marielton P Cunha, Ana Paula P Vilela, Tonney Nyirenda, Rajhab Sawasawa Mkakosya, Adamson S Muula, Rebekah E Dumm, Rebecca M Harris, Constance A Mitchell, Syril Pettit, Jason Botten, Keith R Jerome, PLoS One 17(1): , 2022, PMID:35025926
Implementation of an Extraction-Free COVID Real-Time PCR Workflow in a Pediatric Hospital Setting
Rebekah E Dumm, Michael Elkan, Jeffrey Fink, Melissa Richard-Greenblatt, Amrom E Obstfeld, and Rebecca M Harris, The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine 6(6): 1441-1451, 2021, PMID:34165533
Reproducible Breath Metabolite Changes in Children with SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Amalia Z Berna, Elikplim H Akaho, Rebecca M Harris, Morgan Congdon, Emilie Korn, Samuel Neher, Mirna M'Farrej, Julianne Burns, Audrey R Odom John, ACS Infectious Diseases 7(9): 2596-2603, 2021, PMID:34319698
