Nadine Burke Harris

Nadine Burke Harris (born 1975) is an American pediatrician.^[1] Burke Harris is internationally known for linking Adverse Childhood Experiences and toxic stress with harmful effects to health later on in life.^[2] She is an advisory council member for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Clinton Foundation Too Small to Fail campaign.^[3] Burke Harris is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Youth Wellness.^[4] Hailed as a pioneer in the treatment of toxic stress,^[4] her work has been featured in Paul Tough's book How Children Succeed.^[5]

Education

Burke Harris received her medical degree from the University of California, Davis.^[6] Following her residency at Stanford in pediatrics, she went on to earn a masters degree in public health from Harvard.^[7]

Early career

In 2005, Burke Harris joined the California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) staff, tasked with the goal of developing programs to end health disparities in San Francisco.^[8] While at Harvard Burke Harris identified access to health care as a key component of the health disparity in San Francisco.^[9] In 2007 with support from CPMC, Burke Harris became the founding physician of the Bayview Child Health Center and medical director of the new clinic.^{[9] [4]}

Career

In 2008, after reading “The Relationship of Adverse Childhood Experiences to Adult Health: Turning Gold Into Lead," by Vincent J. Felitti, Burke Harris realized that her patients' traumatic experiences were having a negative impact on their present and future health.^[9]

In 2011 she was appointed by the American Academy of Pediatrics to the Project Advisory Committee for the Resilience Project.^[10]

In 2012, along with colleagues Daniel Lurie, Kamala Harris, Victor G. Carrion, and Katie Albright, Burke Harris opened The Center for Youth Wellness, a new center for child services in Bayview-Hunters Point that would include a medical clinic, family-support services, a child-abuse-response program, and an expanded staff of social workers and psychotherapists, as well as space for biofeedback and other stress-reduction therapies.^{[9] [4]}

In 2014, Burke Harris was selected a speaker at a Tedtalks event titled TedMed in San Francisco. Her talk, "How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime," has reached over 1 million views on Tedtalks.com.^[11]

Personal

Nadine married Arno Lockheart Harris in 2011, they were wed at Dawn Ranch Lodge in Guerneville, Calif.^[12]

Committee Appointments

• 1999 Fellow at the Paul and Daisy Fellowships for New Americans Fellowship.^[13]
• 2002—2003 Graduate Medical Education Committee, Stanford University Medical Center
• 2003—2004 Post-Doctoral Education Committee, Stanford University Medical Center
• 2004—2005 Liaison Committee on Medical Education Task Force, Stanford University School of Medicine
• 2004—2007 Board of Directors, San Francisco Urban Service Project
• 2005—2009 Citizen’s Committee for Community Development (Appt by: Mayor Gavin Newsom)
• 2008—2013 Asthma Resource Council, Board of Directors
• 2011—present American Academy of Pediatrics’ The Resilience Project^[10]
• 2012—present California Health and Human Services Agency' Jerry Brown' Let’s Get Healthy California Task Force, Expert Advisor^[14][15]

Selected works

• 2002 Shaping America's Health Care Professions: The Dramatic Rise of Multiculturalism. Western Journal of Medicine, 2002 176: 62-64.^[16]

• 2011 The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on an Urban Pediatric Population Child Abuse and Neglect 35(2011) 408-413^[17]

References

External links

• http://www.centerforyouthwellness.org