Testimony of Dr. Jeffrey Harris, M.D., Ph.D
October 4, 2004 7:10 pm by Gene BorioTestimony of Dr. Jeffrey Harris, M.D., Ph.D
Harris, Jeffrey M.D., Ph.D.
US Expert Witness
Dr. Harris is a tenured Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the MIT faculty in 1976 and completed his medical training in 1977. During the past twenty-five years, Dr. Harris has taught a number of undergraduate and graduate courses at MIT, including health economics, microeconomics, industrial organization, antitrust economics, mathematical economics, statistics, law and economics, and toxicology and public policy. Since 1977, Dr. Harris has continuously served as a primary-care physician on the medical staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital (”MGH”). Since 1974, when Dr. Harris began his internship at the MGH, he has had more than 10,000 individual encounters with patients, a great many of whom smoked cigarettes and had smoking-related diseases. Since 1979, Dr. Harris has been a contributing scientific editor, contributor, or senior reviewer to several Surgeon General’s Reports. Since 1979, Dr. Harris has served as a consultant to a number of governmental agencies in connection with the health consequences and economic impact of cigarette smoking. Dr. Harris has given invited testimony concerning the health consequences of smoking, the economics of proposed tobacco-industry settlements, and the impact of proposed legislation before: the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee; the Joint Committee on Health Care, Massachusetts Senate & House of Representatives; the Massachusetts Department of Public Health; the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee; the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee; the U.S. House Judiciary Committee; and the U.S. Senate Democratic Task Force on Tobacco. Additionally, Dr. Harris has served on invited panels of the National Academy of Sciences and on a Council of the National Institutes of Health..