Title(s): Director, Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group Professor, Community and Family Medicine Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Dartmouth College
Department(s): Community and Family Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology
Education: Education: 1976-1980 SB Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Chemical Engineering) 1982-1986 SM Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Polymers) 1982-1986 MD University of Kansas Medical School (KUMC) 1994-1995 MPH University of Kansas Medical School (Biostats /Epidemiology)
Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments: 6-8/1983 Fellow: Clendening History of Medicine Fellowship, KUMC 8-11/1985 Fellow: National Institutes of Health, Inter-Institute Genetics Clinic 1986-1987 Intern: Kansas University Medical Center, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics 1987-1990 Resident: Kansas University Medical Center, Department of Family Medicine 1986 Fellow: Colposcopy Training: Kansas University Medical Center, John Calkins, MD 1990 Fellow: Colposcopy Training: Harvard Medical School, Louis Burke, MD 1994 Faculty Fellow: Stanford Faculty Development Program, Medical Decision Making, Palo Alto, CA 1997 Faculty Development: McMaster University, Teaching Evidence Based Medicine, Hamilton, ON 2000 US PHS Primary Care Fellowship, Washington DC
Military Service: 1976 US Navy ROTC, MIT Campus
Programs: Center for Shared Decision Making Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Harper DM. Franco EL. Wheeler C. Ferris DG. Jenkins D. Schuind A. Zahaf T. Innis B. Naud P. De Carvalho NS. Roteli-Martins CM. Teixeira J. Blatter MM. Korn AP. Quint W. Dubin G. GlaxoSmithKline HPV Vaccine Study Group Efficacy of a bivalent L1 virus-like particle vaccine in prevention of infection with human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 in young women: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 364(9447):1757-65, 2004 Nov 13 (view details on MedLine)
Harper DM. Longacre MR. Noll WW. Belloni DR. Cole BF Factors affecting the detection rate of human papillomavirus. Annals of Family Medicine. 1(4):221-7, 2003 Nov-Dec. (view details on MedLine)
Harper DM Why am I scared of HPV? Ca: a Cancer Journal for Clinicians. 54(5):245-7, 2004 Sep-Oct. (view details on MedLine)
Professional Interests:
Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research:
cervical cancer prevention
HPV preventoin
HPV cure
CIN detection
CIN cure
Quality of Life/ Shared Decision Making
Communications
Courses Taught:
Dartmouth College
1999--- Women in Science Program (WISP) Mentor, Dartmouth College
2000--- Pre-medical Mentor Program, Nathan Smith Society, Dartmouth College
2002--- Presidential Scholar Mentor, Dartmouth College
2003--- Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Dartmouth College
Independent Studies Elective