Norman Stuart Harris

Dr. Norman Stuart Harris, Jr., M.D. is the emergency medicine expert witness from Boston. He also has expertise in wilderness medicine, high altitude medicine and environmental health. He has MA State active medical License. He is certified in emergency medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He then earned his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia. He then completed his residency from the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Stuart Harris is the founder and Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Wilderness Medicine, and the Director of the MGH Wilderness Medicine Fellowship. He is a full-time attending physician in the MGH Emergency Department and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency in 2003. Stuart’s research focuses on investigating the pathogenesis and treatment of acute hypoxia/ high altitude illness and on the interplay between climate change and human health.  His drive to increase physician awareness of the interaction between environmental degradation and individual and public health has led to the creation of the first Wilderness Medicine Fellowship at MGH.  He has been conducting research with the Himalayan Rescue Association in the Mt. Everest region since 1999 and the U.S. Army’s Research Institute for Environmental Medicine since 2004.He has few publications to his credit.