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American professor
William S. Harris , (also known as Bill Harris ) PhD FAHA FASN is an American professor and researcher focusing on
human nutrition . His work has focused on the role of
Omega-3 fatty acids as they relate to
cardiovascular disease and
neuropsychiatric disease .
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Education and academic career
A 1971 graduate of
Hanover College where he majored in chemistry,
[5] Harris completed a PhD in Nutrition and Food Science from the
University of Minnesota in 1978
[6] 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.
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[7] He co-directed the Lipid and Diabetes Research Center at the
Mid America Heart Institute of
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City .
[4] 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.
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Harris founded OmegaQuant in 2009 to develop the RBC omega-3 index as a research assay.
[6] This assay was later acquired by the
Health Diagnostic Laboratory .
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His work focused on the role of
lipid and
lipoprotein metabolism in human disease,
[8] and specifically the development of an
RBC omega-3 index.
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[3] In 2009, he chaired an
American Heart Association science advisory on
Omega-6 fatty acids and
cardiovascular disease .
[9] He has authored >300 manuscripts in peer-reviewed literature.
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Harris is a
Fellow of the American Heart Association and a
Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition .
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b Tan ZS, Harris WS, Beiser AS, Au R, Himali JJ, Debette S, Pikula A, Decarli C, Wolf PA, Vasan RS, Robins SJ, Seshadri S (February 2012).
"Red blood cell ω-3 fatty acid levels and markers of accelerated brain aging" . Neurology . 78 (9): 658–64.
doi :
10.1212/WNL.0b013e318249f6a9 .
PMC
3286229 .
PMID
22371413 .
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b Shearer GC, Pottala JV, Spertus JA, Harris WS (2009).
"Red blood cell fatty acid patterns and acute coronary syndrome" . PLOS ONE . 4 (5): e5444.
Bibcode :
2009PLoSO...4.5444S .
doi :
10.1371/journal.pone.0005444 .
PMC
2673680 .
PMID
19421317 .
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b Kris-Etherton PM, Harris WS, Appel LJ (November 2002). "Fish consumption, fish oil, omega-3 fatty acids, and cardiovascular disease". Circulation . 106 (21): 2747–57.
doi :
10.1161/01.cir.0000038493.65177.94 .
PMID
12438303 .
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William S. Harris, PhD Biography hosted at cim.med.miami.edu. Accessed 2021-09-01.
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"William S. Harris" . ORCID . Retrieved 2022-08-24 .
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c Passwater, Richard A (21 November 2019).
"Updated Suggestions for Omega Balanced Fatty Acids and Exciting New Fish Oil Studies" . Whole Foods Magazine . Retrieved 21 September 2021 .
^ Harris, William S.
"The COMBination of Prescription Omega-3 With Simvastatin (COMBOS) Study: An Expert Interview With William S. Harris, PhD" . Medscape . Retrieved 1 September 2021 .
^ Harris WS (June 1989).
"Fish oils and plasma lipid and lipoprotein metabolism in humans: a critical review" . J Lipid Res . 30 (6): 785–807.
doi :
10.1016/S0022-2275(20)38310-3 .
PMID
2677200 .
^ Harris WS, Mozaffarian D, Rimm E, Kris-Etherton P, Rudel LL, Appel LJ; et al. (2009). "Omega-6 fatty acids and risk for cardiovascular disease: a science advisory from the American Heart Association Nutrition Subcommittee of the Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism; Council on Cardiovascular Nursing; and Council on Epidemiology and Prevention". Circulation . 119 (6): 902–7.
doi :
10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.191627 .
PMID
19171857 .
S2CID
15072227 . {{
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PubMed index of William S. Harris. Accessed 01 Sept 2021.
^ ASN Staff (13 May 2020).
"The American Society for Nutrition Foundation Announces Class of 2020 Fellows" . American Society for Nutrition . Retrieved 1 September 2021 .