Penn Medicine Provider
Family Medicine
Rebecca Arden Harris, MD, MSc
4.5
(74)
Sees patients of all ages
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
  • Senior Scholar, Penn Injury Science Center
  • Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Rebecca Arden Harris ("Arden"), MD, MSc, is an Assistant Professor, primary care physician, and addiction medicine researcher in the Penn Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. After graduating from Haverford College with a BSc in Biology, she attended Thomas Jefferson University for medical school and completed residency training at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She has also earned a Master of Science in Health Policy Research from Penn. Dr. Harris is board certified in both family medicine and addiction medicine.

Dr. Harris' research centers on substance use disorders, treatment delivery and innovation, and population-level modeling of the drug overdose mortality crisis. Her research has been published in leading medical journals and is supported through an NIH career-development grant.

Education and training

  • Medical School: Jefferson Medical College
  • Residency: Montefiore Medical Center

What my patients think about me

Average Rating
4.5

74 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

April 2025
1.0
1.0
the level of treatment and response i received was not enough information to determine a course of action
February 2025
5.0
5.0
staying healthy is important to me. i like her style and demeanor in dealing with my exam.
February 2025
5.0
5.0
she wasn't rushed by lots of patients, took her time to evaluate me and actually recommended further evaluation
January 2025
4.0
4.0
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Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Harris is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Harris RA, Long JA, Bao Y, Mandell DS Racial, Ethnic, and Sex Differences in Methadone-Involved Overdose Deaths Before and After the US Federal Policy Change Expanding Take-home Methadone Doses , JAMA Health Forum, 4(6): 2023

Harris RA, Mandell DS Fatal drug overdose among middle-aged Black men: A life table analysis. , Addictive Behaviors, 144: 2023

Harris RA Drug overdose deaths among non-Hispanic Black men in the US: Age-specific projections through 2025 , AJPM Focus, 2(1): 2023

Harris RA, Mandell DS Years of Life Lost to Drug Overdose Among Black Female Individuals in the US, 2015-2021 , JAMA Psychiatry, 80(3): 2022

Harris RA Sex and drug overdose mortality trends, 1999-2020 , JAMA Psychiatry, 79(8): 2022,833-834

Harris RA Race, overdose deaths, and years of lost life , JAMA Pediatrics, 176(7): 2022,729

Harris RA, Aronowitz S, French R, Mandell DS. It’s time for Pa. to stop allowing overdose deaths to be treated like homicides. , The Philadelphia Inquirer: 2021

Harris RA, Mandell DS, Kampman KM, Bao Y, Campbell K, Cidav Z, Coviello DM, French R, Livesey C, Lowenstein M, Lynch KG, McKay JR, Oslin DW, Wolk CB, Bogner HR Collaborative care in the treatment of opioid use disorder and mental health conditions in primary care: A clinical study protocol , Contemporary Clinical Trials, 103(106325): 2021

Harris RA, Kanzler HR, Chang K-M, Doubeni CA, Gross R. Long-term use of hydrocodone vs. oxycodone in primary care , Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 205: 2019

Harris RA Prescription opioid type and the likelihood of prolonged opioid use after orthopaedic surgery , Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 27(9): 2019,423-429