Dr. Norris is the Chief Medical Executive for the Behavioral and Community Health Service Line as well as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN). He received a Bachelor of Science in biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, MA, and his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC. Dr. Norris completed his internship in internal medicine training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, and then his residency in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. He also completed a Psychosomatic/Consultation Psychiatry Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts General Hospiital. He received his MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. 

As Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Norris’s notable accomplishments include: Growing the employed provider workforce to 29 physicians and 29 advanced practice clinicians (an increase of more than 100 percent), overseeing the creation of a Psychiatric Residency Training Program and a Child and Adolescent Fellowship Program to help train and mentor the next generation of psychiatrists in the region, creating new efficiencies and methods of delivering care to extend the delivery of mental health services into consultative and tele-psychiatric models, leading a highly successful transformation in service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic, with an outpatient conversion from 98 percent face-to-face care to 98 percent virtual care in the third week of March 2020, partnering with regional hospitals to help support delivery of the community’s mental health care, overseeing the LVHN management/clinical operations planning of a 144-bed free standing hospital joint venture with Universal Health Services to open in 2025, and creating the first regional protocols for nonprofit organizations providing transcranial magnetic stimulation and esketamine treatment.

Dr. Norris has 10 published papers,16 published abstracts and 10 invited articles, and book chapters. He has 52 national and international lectures and presentations. He has designed, planned and co-produced three television shows, and "Give Me Shelter: Suicide" was the 2023 Emmy winner in the Societal Concerns long-form category. eMediaWorks and Dr. Norris received the regional Emmy award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Mid- Atlantic Chapter.

Dr. Norris is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Fellow of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. In addition, he has completed a GE Healthcare Physician Fellowship through the Health Management Academy, which is comprised of executive members from the country's largest integrated health systems. Members exchange best practices and benchmark information on increasing the quality and efficiency of health care. This fellowship was a competitive selection for 10 people throughout the country for a two-year program. 

Dr. Norris has been a member of the American psychiatric society for the last 20 years. He has served as President, Vice President, Secretary-Treasurer for the Lehigh Valley chapter of the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society. He has also served as a member of the education committee, awards committee and budget finance committee for the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society. He has been a member of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry for 25 years. He is also a member of the American Association of Chairs of the Department of Psychiatry.