Heather Harris, M.D. received her undergraduate degree in Biological Anthropology and played varsity basketball at Harvard University.  After college, she coordinated research and production of television, radio, and print advertising for the $16 million Tobacco Education Media Campaign on behalf of the Massachusetts State Department of Public Health which resulted in a 17% decline in cigarette consumption in the state of Massachusetts in 1994.  She subsequently received her medical degree from the Stanford University School of Medicine and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF. After residency, Heather helped to start a hospitalist group at Eden Medical Center, a 175-bed, acute care, community hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area.  As the Director of Inpatient Services, she developed an expanding program which provides medical care and consultation for patients in the medical, neurologic and cardiac intensive care units as well as the general medical and surgical floors. While at Eden, Heather developed a keen interest in palliative and end-of-life care for the hospitalized patient.  She spearheaded the development of a Palliative Care Committee and attended the Palliative Care Leadership Center at UCSF in order to develop a multidisciplinary Palliative Care Consultation service and manage two palliative care suites at Eden Medical Center. At UCSF, Heather attends on the hospital medicine and palliative care services.  She also participates in providing medical co-management of neurosurgical patients at Moffitt-Long hospital.  In addition to her attending and teaching responsibilities, Heather is a member of the UCSF Palliative Care Leadership Center and has assumed the responsibilities of marketing director.  Her research interests include the enhancement of continuing medical education for hospital medicine, and developing strategies to provide evidence-based care and enhance palliative care services in the community hospital setting. CV | Hospital Medicine Faculty