Dr. Harper has returned to private practice. With over 20 years clinical experience, he is conducting evaluations and testing for ADHD • Brain Injury • Mood • Anxiety • Personality • PTSD • Dementia He specializes in treatment for: Families • Troubled Marriages • Adults • Teens/Kids (8+) • Seniors • Persons in Work/Life Transitions

Full administrative, clinical and fiscal responsibility for multi-office and multidisciplinary Outpatient Mental Health Counseling organization. Report to 18 members of a Board of Directors from the community and local stakeholder churches. Carry full caseload, seeing families and couples, individuals with relationship presentations, mood and anxiety disorders, as well as disorders of attention. Perform psychological and cognitive testing for a number of referral concerns including mood, anxiety, attentional disorders, cognition and brain injury. Consult to community organizations upon request.

Clinical oversight and responsibility for more than 70 clinicians and support personnel in three sites, with accountability for over 3 million covered lives in five states, and over 2,500 practitioner- and facility-providers. QI / Compliance knowledge of state and federal laws and accreditation regulations related to treatment services, insurance, managed care, CMS, Medicaid, EMTALA, ERISA, HIPAA, HEDIS, URAC, NCQA and JCAHO. Budgetary accountability for Clinical operations and share general budgetary planning responsibility with regional senior management for service region. Implement and develop ongoing Clinically-related Quality Assurance and improvement activities. Direct and develop clinical metric analyses and statistical model building of health information variables related to utilization management, predictive modeling and outlier identification. Member and provider relations and refinement of clinical workflow processes with emphasis on prevention programs and Disease Management models.

Advanced training in Clinical Supervision. Assessment and treatment of individuals, couples, families, adolescents with MR, MH and CD - related diagnoses. Training and experience in CISD and EAP counseling. Health Psychology practice specialty in working with adult Medical populations with co-morbid MH conditions. Co-director of Geriatric Institute, specializing in assessment and treatment of medically and mentally compromised geriatric populations residing in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Centers. Dementia evaluations. Consultation to Medical and Psychiatric Hospitals. Published in Medical and Social Work Refereed Journals. Part-time faculty with Uof L.

Primary rotation in Health and Rehabilitation Psychology, working with medical populations in preventive medicine, tertiary intervention and disease management programs. Duties included individual and group psychotherapy for geriatric populations, post-stroke and post-MI patients evaluations and treatment, Cardiopulmonary transplant patients, patients with Diabetes, Renal Disease and other medically compromised populations. Inpatient consultation at University medical hospital; outpatient evaluations for medical populations. Developed the behavioral health component of the facility’s prevention and rehab disease management programs. Developed patient and provider – related psychosocial educational disease management programs and course curricula and developed and facilitated family and patient psychoeducational groups for pre-transplant and post event populations. Designed and implemented research and studies relevant to Behavioral Medicine and Rehabilitation Psychology. Secondary rotation at the Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt (PHV) in Adult Psychiatry Services. Duties at secondary placement included inpatient and outpatient evaluation for pre- transplantation assessment, post-stroke evaluation, workers compensation, and traditional psychological evaluations. Participation on evaluation team in psychological and neuropsychological assessment.