Michael Harper, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Throughout his career, Dr. Harper has worked in various settings across the geriatrics continuum of care, including ambulatory and home-based primary care, long-term care, PACE, and acute and post-acute care. His current clinical activities occur at both the SFVAMC and UCSF. At the SFVAMC, he attends on the Mobile Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Service and supervises fellows in the Community Living Center and geriatrics clinic. Through the UCSF Care at Home Program, Dr. Harper provides primary care for homebound older adults in San Francisco. He is also the Medical Director of The Sequoias San Francisco, a Continuing Care Retirement Community.

• Age Is Just One Factor: Anesthesia Care for Older Adults.
  Clinics in geriatric medicine 2024 Harper GM
• Three Decades of Progress Since the Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Program.
  Clinics in geriatric medicine 2024 Harper GM
• Healing the Miseducation About Pressure Injuries and Chronic Wounds.
  Clinics in geriatric medicine 2024 Harper GM
• Individualizing Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual+ Older Adults.
  Clinics in geriatric medicine 2024 Harper GM
• Can You Please Take a Look at This Rash with Me?
  Clinics in geriatric medicine 2023 Harper GM
• Dr Nascher Would Be Pleased.
  Clinics in geriatric medicine 2023 Harper GM
• Lee AG, Potter JF, Harper GM (eds). Geriatrics for Specialists. 2nd ed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer;
  Lee AG, Potter JF, Harper GM (eds). Geriatrics for Specialists. 2nd ed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer; 2021 Andrew G. Lee, Jane F. Potter, G. Michael Harper
• Is it time for comprehensive geriatric assessment to move beyond primary care? The case for targeting medical sub-specialty practice.
  Israel journal of health policy research 2017 Byerly LK, Harper GM
• Changing Spaces and Learning Environments to Improve Inpatient Interprofessional Education for Internal Medicine Residents.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2017 Lo D, Zhang N, Eubank K, Harper GM, Yukawa M, O'Brien B
• Staying in the game: the 10-step approach to sustaining geriatrics education in hospitalists and subspecialty providers.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2014 Gillespie SM, Brandt LE, Chang A, Chao SH, Corcoran AM, Miller R, Harper GM, Levine SA, Medina-Walpole A
• What is a geriatrician? American Geriatrics Society and Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs end-of-training entrustable professional activities for geriatric medicine.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2014 Leipzig RM, Sauvigné K, Granville LJ, Harper GM, Kirk LM, Levine SA, Mosqueda L, Parks SM, Fernandez HM, Busby-Whitehead J
• American Geriatrics Society/Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs curricular milestones for graduating geriatric fellows.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2014 Parks SM, Harper GM, Fernandez H, Sauvigne K, Leipzig RM
• Pruritus in the older patient: a clinical review.
  JAMA 2013 Berger TG, Shive M, Harper GM
• The 'worthy' patient: rethinking the 'hidden curriculum' in medical education.
  Anthropology & medicine 2013 Higashi RT, Tillack A, Steinman MA, Johnston CB, Harper GM
• Update on the management of chronic kidney disease.
  American family physician 2012 Rivera JA, O'Hare AM, Harper GM
• Advancing geriatrics education: an efficient faculty development program for academic hospitalists increases geriatric teaching.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2010 Mazotti L, Moylan A, Murphy E, Harper GM, Johnston CB, Hauer KE
• What training is needed in the fourth year of medical school? Views of residency program directors.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2009 Lyss-Lerman P, Teherani A, Aagaard E, Loeser H, Cooke M, Harper GM
• Characteristics and impact of drug detailing for gabapentin.
  PLoS medicine 2007 Steinman MA, Harper GM, Chren MM, Landefeld CS, Bero LA
• Correlates of caregiver-rated quality of life in assisted living: the Maryland Assisted Living study.
  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2006 Samus QM, Rosenblatt A, Onyike C, Steele C, Baker A, Harper M, Brandt J, Mayer L, Rabins PV, Lyketsos CG
• The reading habits of medicine clerks at one medical school: frequency, usefulness, and difficulties.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2006 Leff B, Harper GM
• Sleep disturbances in the elderly residing in assisted living: findings from the Maryland Assisted Living Study.
  International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2005 Rao V, Spiro JR, Samus QM, Rosenblatt A, Steele C, Baker A, Harper M, Brandt J, Mayer L, Rabins PV, Lyketsos CG
• The association of neuropsychiatric symptoms and environment with quality of life in assisted living residents with dementia.
  The Gerontologist 2005 Samus QM, Rosenblatt A, Steele C, Baker A, Harper M, Brandt J, Mayer L, Rabins PV, Lyketsos CG
• The effect of computerized provider order entry on medical student clerkship experiences.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2005 Knight AM, Kravet SJ, Harper GM, Leff B
• Predictors of functional impairment in residents of assisted-living facilities: the Maryland Assisted Living study.
  The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2005 Burdick DJ, Rosenblatt A, Samus QM, Steele C, Baker A, Harper M, Mayer L, Brandt J, Rabins P, Lyketsos CG
• The Maryland Assisted Living Study: prevalence, recognition, and treatment of dementia and other psychiatric disorders in the assisted living population of central Maryland.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2004 Rosenblatt A, Samus QM, Steele CD, Baker AS, Harper MG, Brandt J, Rabins PV, Lyketsos CG
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2004 Harper GM, Leff B, Thomas P, Burton J
• Attempting resuscitation in nursing homes: policy considerations.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1999 Finucane TE, Harper GM
• The timing of do-not-resuscitate orders and hospital costs.
  Journal of general internal medicine 1999 De Jonge KE, Sulmasy DP, Gold KG, Epstein A, Harper MG, Eisenberg JM, Schulman KA
• Association between uncoupling protein polymorphisms (UCP2-UCP3) and energy metabolism/obesity in Pima indians.
  Human molecular genetics 1998 Walder K, Norman RA, Hanson RL, Schrauwen P, Neverova M, Jenkinson CP, Easlick J, Warden CH, Pecqueur C, Raimbault S, Ricquier D, Silver MH, Shuldiner AR, Solanes G, Lowell BB, Chung WK, Leibel RL, …
• Acceptability to patients of a home hospital.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1998 Burton LC, Leff B, Harper M, Ghoshtagore I, Steinwachs DA, Greenough WB, Burton JR
• Prospective evaluation of clinical criteria to select older persons with acute medical illness for care in a hypothetical home hospital.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1997 Leff B, Burton L, Bynum JW, Harper M, Greenough WB, Steinwachs D, Burton JR
• Ethical decision-making near the end of life.
  Clinics in geriatric medicine 1996 Finucane TE, Harper M