Dr. Aaron Harries is a Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and works clinically as an Emergency Physician at the safety-net Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Emergency Department. He has expertise in healthcare reimbursement, medical education, clinical emergency medicine, and global health. Aaron currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the California delegation of the American College of Emergency Physicians advocating for health policy through organized medicine.

Aaron is a true product of the University of California education system, earning his undergraduate degree from UCLA, medical degree at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, his EM residency at Alameda County Medical Center (Highland Hospital), and his EM Global Health Fellowship at UCSF. His fellowship focus was on EM medical education and systems development in Uganda.

Aaron's academic interests are in healthcare finance reform, documentation improvement, medical education, and global health/disaster medicine. He has worked in disaster response in Haiti post-earthquake and in the Philippines after typhoon Haiyan. Aaron has also taught medicine internationally in Kenya, South Sudan, Haiti, Thailand/Burma border, and Uganda. He serves as a member of the UCSF EM Global Health Section and a Global Affiliate of the Institute for Global Health Sciences. Aaron is the Director of Clinical Documentation Integrity- Physician Advisor for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. He also served for 10 years as Director for EM Medical Student Education within the UCSF School of Meidine teaching, mentoring, and career advising hundreds of medical students.

Aaron is a recipient of the UCSF Differences Matter DEI Champion Training, and a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators (AME) serving on the AME Mentorship Action Group.