He joined the UTMB faculty in July of 2010 after finishing his fellowship in Rheumatology at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Prior to his fellowship training, he completed medical school at UTMB followed by residency in Internal Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C. Dr. Harper is active clinically seeing patients with general rheumatologic diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, gout, systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, ankylosing spondylitis as well as osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. Additionally, Dr. Harper is involved in medical education and research in scleroderma. »Pub Med Search