Resident physician
Mayo Clinic Florida
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Eugene Paul Harper, MD is a 3rd-year resident physician at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. He graduated from Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota in 2018, and came to Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville for Internal Medicine residency. He is an active member of IDSA and the C. Difficile Diagnostic Stewardship Quality Improvement Group, CLER Education Planning Committee, and Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee at Mayo Clinic Florida. Dr. Harper’s research interests include high-consequence infectious disease preparedness, epidemiology of foodborne and waterborne diseases, and antimicrobial resistance patterns among gram-negative organisms. Prior to his career in medicine, Dr. Harper served in the U.S. Marine Corps as an Infantry Squad Leader, completing two combat deployments to Iraq. In his last year of medical school, he rotated with the CDC Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch working on multi-state foodborne Salmonella and E. coli outbreaks. Dr. Harper has published research in collaboration with other Mayo physicians and CDC on the efficacy of antitoxin therapy in treatment of foodborne botulism in Clinical Infectious Diseases, and more recently in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Dr. Harper plans to pursue fellowship training in Infectious Diseases after completing residency.
