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
College of Medicine Dean's Award, Medical University of South Carolina, 2007-2011
Phi Beta Kappa, Clemson University, 2007
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
Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine, 2024 - Present
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Selected Publications
Upper and lower airway microbiota across infancy and childhood
Ariel J Hernandez-Leyva, Anne L Rosen, Christopher P Tomera, Elaina E Lin, Elikplim H Akaho, Allison M Blatz, William R Otto, Joey Logan, Lisa R Young, Rebecca M Harris, Samantha A Whiteside, Andrew L Kau, Audrey R Odom John, Pediatric Research, 2025, PMID:40075175
Single-sample confirmation of positive gonorrhea and chlamydia results using the Roche cobas CT/NG and Cepheid Xpert CT/NG assays
Kenneth P Smith, Nicole A Loeven, Jeffrey Fink, Michael Elkan, Kevin Weller, Rebecca M Harris, The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, 2025
A two-variant model of SARS-COV-2 transmission: estimating the characteristics of a newly emerging strain
Teresa K Yamana, Swetha Rajagopal, Donald C Hall Jr, Ahmed M Moustafa, Andries Feder, Azad Ahmed, Colleen Bianco, Rebecca Harris, Susan Coffin, Amy E Campbell, Sen Pei, Joshua Chang Mell, Paul J Planet, Jeffrey Shaman, BMC Infectious Diseases 24(1): 938, 2024, PMID:39251965
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 45(8): 943-951, 2024, PMID:39229740
Surveillance for rubella virus in samples obtained from non-immunodeficient individuals
Srushti Patel, Pierre Russo, Rebecca M. Harris, Kelly Maurer, Lijuan Hao, Rachell Suzanne Beard, Ludmila Perelygina, Kathleen E Sullivan, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology 35(1): , 2024, PMID:38284923
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 44(10): 1680-1682, 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, PMID:37256853
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
