Richard Harris, Ph.D.
Richard Harris, Ph.D., received his B.S. degree in Genetics from Purdue University in 1992 and his doctorate in Molecular and Cellular Biology from UC Berkeley in 1997. Following his graduate work, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at NIH studying the rhythmic properties of neural cultures. After this, he joined the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center at Georgetown University as coordinator of a pilot study of acupuncture in fibromyalgia, and attended the Maryland Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine where he studied acupuncture and graduated in June 2002. His current interests are the mechanism and efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of chronic pain conditions.
