Miriam Harris, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Biography
Dr. Harris is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and an addiction expert at Boston Medical Center. A graduate of McMaster University School of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency at the University of British Columbia, General Internal Medicine Fellowship and Masters of Epidemiology at McGill University, and Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Boston University, Dr. Harris is passionate about women’s health and harm reduction. Her research interests focus on the intersection of women’s health and substance use including increasing sexual, reproductive, and HIV prevention services in substance use treatment spaces, substance use treatment while pregnant and parenting, and gender-responsive harm reduction.
Clinically, she provides community-based methadone treatment at HCRC Bradston in Boston and attends on the General Medicine units and the Addiction Consult Service at Boston Medical Center.
Education
- McMaster University, MD
Publications
- Published on 1/24/2025
Harris MTH, Shannon K, Krüsi A, Zhou H, Goldenberg SM. Social-structural barriers to primary care among sex workers: findings from a community-based cohort in Vancouver, Canada (2014-2021). BMC Health Serv Res. 2025 Jan 24; 25(1):134. PMID: 39849566.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/28/2024
Harris MT, Shannon K, Krüsi A, Zhou H, Goldenberg SM. Structural Barriers to Primary Care Among Sex Workers: Findings from a Community- Based Cohort in Vancouver, Canada (2014-2021). Res Sq. 2024 Aug 28. PMID: 39257992.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/3/2024
Harris MT, Weinberger E, O'Brien C, Althoff M, Paltrow-Krulwich S, Taylor JL, Judge A, Samet JH, Walley AY, Gunn CM. PrEP facilitators and barriers in substance use bridge clinics for women who engage in sex work and who use drugs. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2024 Jun 03; 19(1):47. PMID: 38831359.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/20/2023
Harris MTH, Laks J, Hurstak E, Jain JP, Lambert AM, Maschke AD, Bagley SM, Farley J, Coffin PO, McMahan VM, Barrett C, Walley AY, Gunn CM. "If you're strung out and female, they will take advantage of you": A qualitative study exploring drug use and substance use service experiences among women in Boston and San Francisco. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2024 Feb; 157:209190. PMID: 37866442.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/1/2023
Harris M, Schiff DM, Saia K, Muftu S, Standish KR, Wachman EM. Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Clinical Protocol #21: Breastfeeding in the Setting of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorder (Revised 2023). Breastfeed Med. 2023 Oct; 18(10):715-733. PMID: 37856658.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/13/2023
Harris MT, Goldenberg S, Cui Z, Fairbairn N, Milloy MS, Hayashi K, Samet JH, Walley AY, Nolan S. Association of sex work and social-structural factors with non-fatal overdose among women who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada. Int J Drug Policy. 2023 Feb; 112:103950. PMID: 36640591.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/9/2023
Laks J, Walley AY, Bagley SM, Barber CM, Gaeta JM, Neville LA, Peterkin AF, Rosenthal E, Saia KA, Weinstein ZM, Harris MTH. Developing a Women's Health track within addiction medicine fellowship: reflections and inspirations. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2023 Jan 09; 18(1):3. PMID: 36617557.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/27/2022
Gunn CM, Pankowska M, Harris M, Helsing E, Battaglia TA, Bagley SM. The representation of females in clinical trials for substance use disorder conducted in the United States (2010-19). Addiction. 2022 Oct; 117(10):2583-2590. PMID: 35165969.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/4/2022
Peterkin AF, Abraham R, Harris MTH. A Case of Phenibut Directed Detoxification Leading to Toxicity During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Addict Med. 2022 Sep-Oct 01; 16(5):602-605. PMID: 35120058.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2022
Harris MTH, Laks J, Stahl N, Bagley SM, Saia K, Wechsberg WM. Gender Dynamics in Substance Use and Treatment: A Women's Focused Approach. Med Clin North Am. 2022 Jan; 106(1):219-234. PMID: 34823732.
Read at: PubMed
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