Assistant Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Courtney Harris is a transplant infectious disease physician at the Medical University of South Carolina. She was born and raised in Minnesota and subsequently attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for undergraduate studies majoring in Medical Microbiology & Immunology with a minor in Business, and then returned home for medical school at the University of Minnesota. She completed an internal medicine residency and a chief residency year at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. During her chief residency, she focused on curriculum development in quality improvement. She then moved to Boston, MA, and completed her infectious disease fellowship and transplant infectious fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. She completed the Program for Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious disease. During her training, she was involved in local, state, and national organized medicine with formative experiences as a Board of Trustee representative for the Minnesota Medical Association for four years and 2-year representative on the National Council of Resident and Fellow Members of the American College of Physicians. She currently is on the American Society for Transplantation Infectious Disease Community of Practice Executive Committee. Her track record during her training has led to recognition with several awards from her residency program, the Zumbro Valley Medical Society’s Outstanding Young Physician Award, and the Massachusetts Infectious Disease Society’s Kass Award for Clinical Excellence. She then joined the MUSC faculty as an assistant professor and is currently the Program Director of the Transplant Infectious Disease Fellowship Program, Medical Student Infectious Disease Clerkship Director, and Director of the Infectious Disease Cardiac Transplantation Program. She has presented nationally and published literature on improving gender equity in academic medicine, career development in transplant infectious disease, and fungal infections in immunocompromised patients.