Christina Harris, MD, was appointed vice president and chief health equity officer for Cedars-Sinai Health System in July 2022. In this strategic leadership position, Dr. Harris guides Cedars-Sinai’s ongoing efforts to advance health equity by addressing health disparities in clinical care, supporting equity-centered research and education, and fostering meaningful partnerships across the organization and communities throughout Los Angeles. She attended University of Southern California for college and completed her medical degree at Harvard Medical School. She then went on to complete an internal medicine residency at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City.
Dr. Harris is currently a health sciences associate clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Prior to joining Cedars-Sinai, she was on the faculty at Greater Los Angeles VA, where she was an associate program director in the UCLA Internal Medicine Residency Program and associate vice chair of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the UCLA Department of Medicine. Dr. Harris has published and lectured locally and nationally on issues of racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion as they relate to medical education and clinical outcomes. Clinically, she is a general internist and has spent the past 16 years providing primary care to patients across a variety of settings, including a federally qualified health center, academic medical centers, and the VA.