Odette Harris

Odette Harris (born September 30, 1969) is a professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and the Director of the Brain Injury Program for the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Deputy Chief of Staff, Rehabilitation at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Quotes When you’re assigned something that you feel is a dead end, that is really going to take time away from your goal of being promoted,” Harris said. ”[Adler] taught me to say ‘no’ in a way that is effective. "This Stanford neurosurgeon’s promotion just made history—here’s why it’s a big deal for STEM", cnbc.com (March 27, 2018) I'm an incredibly optimistic person. Yes, I'm very hopeful. I believe that hope has to be coupled with opportunity. We can't just rest on hope. We can't just say, 'This is getting better. Things are getting better.' "Neurosurgeon Odette Harris: A unique and rare physician", stanford.edu (June 20, 2018) Without hope, my life, my path, my journey, my accomplishments would not even exist, "Brain surgeon: 'If you're Black and a woman, nothing else is visible'", today.com (July 20, 2020) I think it’s important to focus on what people have to achieve to be in the roles that they’re in. Being a professor at Stanford is a journey, and there have only been two other women in the whole of the neurosciences that have received that distinction — and none of them were Black. So it’s an arduous journey. External links Category:Neuroscientists from the United States Category:Women physicians from the United States Category:Dartmouth College alumni Category:Stanford University alumni Category:Stanford University faculty Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni Category:Surgeons Category:Medical scientists Category:African Americans Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:People from Jamaica