She is an attending neonatologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. After growing up in Connecticut, Dr. Burris went to Philadelphia where she obtained her BA in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and her MD from Temple University. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She then moved to Boston for neonatology fellowship at Harvard. She obtained her MPH from the Harvard School of Public health through the Harvard Pediatric Health Services Fellowship.