Fifteen years of wide spread use of highly cross-linked polyethylene in patients have shown it to be very effective in preventing osteolysis.

[3][4] His work inspired surgical techniques, implant design, development of new operations, prevention of blood clot formation, and other leading advances in hip surgery.

Harris interned at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and completed a one-year general surgery residency there.

Harris is a founding member of The Hip Society of North America and served as the organization's first president.

Dr. Harris is the author of some 520 scientific publications and three textbooks dealing with hip surgery, arthritis and diseases of the skeleton.