dr. harper

Ruthie Harper, M.D. is a Board Certified Internist who has spent many years developing her unique vision for helping people achieve beauty, health and wellness. She founded The Laser and Skincare Clinic with this vision in mind.

Dr. Harper has been a practicing physician since 1989 and founded her own health and wellness practice - Nutritional Medicine Associates - in 1999. It has since become one of the most successful and innovative of its kind in the United States.

In her medical practice, Dr. Harper made unique discoveries in nutritional science and combined them with extensive skincare research to create a line of aesthetic treatments and skincare products unlike anything else in the cosmeceutical industry. As Dr. Harper used these products and treatments in her skincare practice, patients began to achieve incredible results.

Dr. Harper is a passionate, public advocate of the role of nutrition in creating healthy, happy living. She is a regular public speaker nationally on health, wellness, anti-aging, and skincare, and has held a research associate position at the University of Texas at Austin where she conducted nutritional research.

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears." -- Edgar Allen Poe