About
Who is Dr. Raquel Harrison?
Raquel Harrison, MD, FACEP, DipABLM, is board certified in emergency medicine (2015) and lifestyle medicine (2020). After more than a decade in emergency departments seeing how years of daily choices bring people through the doors, she founded Acute 2 Root to practice medicine more relationally and get to the root of acute and chronic illness.
Why did an emergency physician turn to lifestyle medicine?
In the emergency department, the tools are powerful but the timing is late: the work is to pause a crisis that has often been building for years. Dr. Harrison wanted to reach people earlier, so she added a second board certification in lifestyle medicine and built Acute 2 Root around prevention, education and relationship.
She is a Christian, a wife and a mother of three girls. Faith and family come first, and they shape how she teaches: health is stewardship of the body you were given, and change comes from understanding, not rules.
- Board certified, Emergency Medicine (2015) and Lifestyle Medicine (2020)
- Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP)
- Former Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine (2014–2019)
- Residency in Emergency Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical College
- BA, University of Notre Dame
Where has Dr. Harrison written and been featured?
- Courage: The Foundation of Resilience EM News, April 2022
- Food as Medicine: Nutrition Prescriptions in the ED EM News, September 2021
- Trying to Find Regularity in an Irregular ED World EM News, August 2021
- "Sick or Not Sick" Isn't the Only Question EM News, May 2021
- A doctor shares how lifestyle medicine helped her Connecticut Magazine
Connect on LinkedIn or email rharrison@acute2root.com.
Free from Dr. Harrison
Take control of your health, one habit at a time
Practical, physician-backed help for real life, at no cost:
- Simple tips and worksheets from Dr. Harrison's talks and course
- A free 15-minute intro call when you're ready to talk
- First access to the Acute 2 Root app
Prefer email? Write to rharrison@acute2root.com.