Odette Harris, MD, MPH, FAANS
Dr. Odette Harris is professor of neurosurgery and director of brain injury in the Stanford Department of Neurosurgery. She is also deputy chief of staff, rehabilitation, at Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System and board director for Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research. Site Principal Investigator, Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
Professor Odette Harris made history when she was named the first African American female tenured professor of neurosurgery in the United States in 2018. She has dedicated her career to treating, revealing and eliminating disparities in care of patients with traumatic brain injury. I had the great pleasure and honor of sitting down with Professor Harris to discuss her...
The lasting effects and long-term disability after spinal cord injury can be an overwhelming burden to the patients, their families and caregivers, and society as a whole. In the U.S., approximately 294,000 people are living with spinal cord injury (SCI); of the nearly 17,700 new cases every year, 78% occur in men. The SCI incidence is fairly low in...
For the past two summers, the pandemic closed our hospitals, university campuses, and laboratories to students and volunteers; this eliminated valuable opportunities for students to be exposed to health care, science, medicine, and future career pathways. Disadvantaged and under-resourced student communities may have been disproportionally affected since disparities exist in accessing these opportunities. The VA Palo Alto Health Care System...
