Michigan Medicine Chief Wellness Officer
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
Dr. Elizabeth Harry leads the Wellness Office at Michigan Medicine, which engages with leaders, key partners and communities across Michigan Medicine and the University to elevate the well-being of individuals and groups across the Medical School and the Michigan Medicine. As a leader at Michigan Medicine, Dr. Harry works to strengthen, enrich and implement a vision for the future of wellness and well-being through system-level policy change. She utilizes a data-informed and relationship-driven approach to enhance well-being in both academia and clinical care.
Dr. Harry brings over a decade of experience in medicine, healthcare and well-being and is a nationally recognized expert on cognitive load, burnout and well-being. She joined the Michigan Medicine Wellness Office after serving as Senior Medical Director of Well-being at UCHealth and Assistant Dean of Faculty Well-being at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. In addition to the University of Colorado, Dr. Harry practiced at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she was assistant medical director and director of faculty development and well-being for the Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization, as well as faculty liaison for graduate medical education well-being at Partners Healthcare. She has practiced internal medicine in both the inpatient and outpatient settings throughout her career.
She is on the board of the Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine (CHARM) under AAIM and teaches at the Stanford Chief Wellness Officer course. Dr. Harry has partnered with leading institutions across the country to advance research and share successful strategies in this domain. She continues to study and publish about the impact of systemic and cultural aspects of health care systems on individual well-being.
Dr. Harry earned a Bachelor of Science in psychology and biology from Santa Clara University and her medical degree and completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of Colorado. She has been a Macy Scholar for the Harvard Macy Institute, and she also completed the Brigham Leadership Program at Harvard.
