Ruthie Harper, MD

dr. ruthie 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 Nutritional Medicine Associates and The Laser and Skincare Clinic with this vision in mind.

Dr. Harper finished her residency training in 1989 at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. She began her career as an emergency room physician and later became the director of the emergency department where she practiced. She turned to wellness-based medicine in 1993 after realizing that modern medicine provides ways to treat disease but is not designed to aggressively prevent disease.

By taking a cellular approach toward health and using basic biochemistry and cellular science, Dr. Harper founded her own health and wellness practice in 1999. She has studied with some of the top nutritionists in the country and keeps abreast of the latest advances in wellness and anti-aging medicine by attending both national and international conferences. Her practice ranges from treating the very ill to helping well individuals achieve optimal health. She also tailors sports nutrition programs for everyday and world class athletes.

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.