Medical Education: University of Kansas
Residency: University of Kansas

Diane M. Harper, MD, MPH, MS, completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the fields of Chemical Engineering and Polymerics. She received her medical and public health degrees from the University of Kansas in Kansas City, where she also did residencies in Gynecology/Obstetrics and Family Medicine. Dr. Harper has spent the majority of her professional career at Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, in the triple threat positions of clinician, teacher and researcher in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Community and Family Medicine and Women’s and Gender Studies. While at Dartmouth she developed and directed the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group based at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center in which work on all aspects of HPV associated diseases, specifically cervical cancer prevention was conducted. She is an internationally recognized expert on Human Papillomavirus, the cause of cervical cancer, and its vaccines. She has published the sentinel clinical research on HPV vaccines and lectured internationally on this topic. She has served on NCI research committees, addressed the Council on Foreign Affairs and served as a technical advisor to the World Health Organization for cervical cancer prevention. Dr. Harper has been honored as one of the top clinicians in her field in the US, and Physician of the Year in New Hampshire in 2006.

This fall Dr. Harper came back home to Kansas City. As a Professor of Medicine at UMKC in the Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, she hopes to add research to the fantastic clinical curriculum present at Truman Medical Center-Lakewood.