Nancy Lee Harris is the Austin L. Vickery Jr. Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. She is also a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an editor with the New England Journal of Medicine.
Harris has a BA in English from Stanford University and an MD from Stanford Medical School. She did her internship at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis and then a research fellowship in hematopathology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
She is the wife of Jay R. Harris, who is a radiation oncology professor at Harvard Medical School. Their son Matthew Carmichael Harris, a venture capitalist, married filmmaker Jessica Glass whose father, Joseph Glass, was a hematologist and oncologist and the director of hematology at Lenox Hill Hospital. Their second son, Dan Harris, is the co-anchor of the weekend edition of Good Morning America.