William S. Harris

Education and academic career

A 1971 graduate of Hanover College where he majored in chemistry, Harris completed a PhD in Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Minnesota in 1978. He was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he was the Daniel J. Lauer/Missouri Chair in Lipid Metabolism until 2006. He co-directed the Lipid and Diabetes Research Center at the Mid America Heart Institute of Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City. In 2006, he joined faculty at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, where he directed the Cardiovascular Health Research Center at the Sanford Research Center.