Leadership

Odette M Harris, MD, MPH

As of June 2009, Dr Harris is the DVBIC site Director and Principal Investigator at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospital where she is also the Associate Chief of Staff of Polytrauma. She is the Director of Brain Injury at Stanford University Medical Center and Acting Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University.

Previously, Dr Harris was an Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, at Emory University and Chief of Neurosurgery Service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, GA.

Dr Harris completed her undergraduate at Dartmouth College where she graduated with numerous Awards in 1991. She received her medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1996 and a Masters of Public Health from University of California, Berkeley. In 2003 she completed her residency In Neurosurgery at Stanford. She received numerous academic awards during her education and was the 2003 recipient of the Van Wagenen Fellowship Award from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Under the auspices of the fellowship, she conducted the associated research at the University Hospital of the West Indies, where she served as a visiting Consultant, Neurosurgery.

Dr Harris is a member of several professional organizations including the American Association of Neurosurgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. She has received numerous professional awards and honors. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications and books.

Jeffrey Teraoka, MD

Dr Teraoka is the principal investigator for the DVBIC methylphenidate study at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospital.

Dr Jeffrey Teraoka was appointed as the Senior Physiatrist/Medical Director of the Polytrauma System of Care in March 2008. Dr Teraoka provides consultation and medical mentorship to the attending physiatrists in the Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center (PRC), Polytrauma Transitional Rehabilitation Program (PTRP) and Polytrauma Network Site (PNS). He was also appointed Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Service in March 2009.

Dr Teraoka began his VA career in 1990 at the VAPAHCS when he was appointed as a staff physician in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service. Dr Teraoka also served as the Medical Director of Stanford Hospital’s Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit, a 17-bed general rehabilitation unit since 1992, until its closure in August 2008.

Dr Teraoka was born and raised in Hawaii and received his medical degree from the University of Hawaii in 1984. He then completed Internal Medicine Residency at St Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco, and then Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency at Stanford University Medical Center. Dr Teraoka currently holds a Clinical Associate Professor position in the Department of Orthopedics/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Stanford and is the Residency Program Director for the Stanford Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

He is a member of several professional organizations including the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Association of Academic Physiatrists.

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