Basil Harris Email & Phone Number

Lankenau Medical Center Emergency Department

• Provide compassionate patient care in a busy 60-bed Emergency Department and Trauma Center serving Montgomery County and nearby Philadelphia communities
• Named a Top Doctor by Main Line Today for eighth time in 2022 (fifth year in a row)

Lankenau Medical Center Emergency Department

• Managed physician assistants in all aspects of hiring, scheduling, and evaluation
• Maintained high standards of care in review of all patients returning within 72 hours
• Advanced departmental goals and provided emergency medicine perspective at hospital committee meetings as well as general meetings with administrators and nursing leaders
• Scheduled physician shifts and managed any urgent needs including staff illnesses
• Developed a new ER Fellowship curriculum for physician assistants and initiated inaugural class of physician assistant fellows in the program

• Founded and led the winning team in the $10M Tricorder XPRIZE besting 312 teams from around the world in a 5 year head to head medical device competition
• Development resulted in 6 patents: - B. M. Harris, G. C. Harris, and E. L. Hepler, inventors; Basil Leaf Technologies, assignee. Non–Invasive Blood Glucose Sensor. United States Patent 11,304,634. Filed November 3.

• Participate in various research projects including acting as local primary investigator of multi-center clinical study of the reversal of the anticoagulant effects of dabigatran
• Several additional independent research projects - B. M. Harris, J. D. Harris, A. D. Singer, G. C. Harris, P. J. Charron, C. F. Harris, E. L. Hepler. “Validation of an Artificially Intelligent Medical Diagnostic.

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

• Scheduled resident physician shifts and handled any urgent needs regarding staffing
• Delivered presentations and led group discussions at resident conferences including lectures at joint specialty conferences between Emergency Medicine and Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, and Surgery
• In addition to continued clinical training in emergency medicine, activities included research resulting in 1 journal article: - B. M. Harris and B. L. Lopez. “Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine. Lesson 23.

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College)

• Assistant editor of 864–page textbook, with over 100 contributing authors, entitled “Principles and Practice of Spine Surgery” (Mosby, 2003); Additionally responsible for writing 3 textbook chapters: - A. R. Vaccaro.
• Scholarship awarded in 1999 to participate in the Student Translational Cancer Research Program. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH); Co-Investigator on funded research project incorporating both in-vivo.

Residency In Emergency Medicine At Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Emergency Medicine Residency Program

Activities and Societies: Chief Resident 2004-2005

Doctor Of Medicine - Md, Jefferson Medical College (Now Sidney Kimmel Medical College)

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Composite Materials In Civil Engineering; Theoretical & Applied Mechanics; Environmental Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Civil Engineering Materials With Minor In Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science - Bs (X2), Bs In Architectural Engineering And Bs In Civil Engineering(Structures)