This chapter profiles Dr. Michele Harper, an award-winning physician, New York Times bestselling author, and nationally recognized speaker whose work centers on individual healing and social justice (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.). Growing up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family (Penguin Random House, Michele Harper [Author page]. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2175605/michele-harper/ , n.d.; Kelly, Ann Emerg Med 76(5):A20–A22, 2020), she discovered emergency medicine as a teenager when her brother was injured, protecting their mother (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.; Penguin Random House, Michele Harper [Author page]. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2175605/michele-harper/ , n.d.). After graduating from Harvard University with a BA in Psychology (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.; Penguin Random House, Michele Harper [Author page]. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2175605/michele-harper/ , n.d.), Dr. Harper earned her MD from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.; Kelly, Ann Emerg Med 76(5):A20–A22, 2020) and completed an emergency medicine residency at Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center in the South Bronx, where she received the Joel Gernsheimer Award for excellence in emergency medicine (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.; MacDowell, Michele Harper: Literature Fellow. https://www.macdowell.org/artists/michele-harper , 2023). Following her divorce just before beginning her attending position, she began her healing journey chronicled in “The Beauty in Breaking” (2020), published by Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House, The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/580340/the-beauty-in-breaking-by-michele-harper/ , 2020), which became a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback editions (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.; MacDowell. MacDowell awards spring-summer fellowships to 142 artists. https://www.macdowell.org/news/macdowell-awards-spring-summer-fellowships-to-142-artists , 2023, February 17) and was longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.). Using the Japanese art of Kintsukuroi—repairing broken pottery with gold—as a metaphor, she explores how trauma can become beauty. Dr. Harper received the 2022 Gold Foundation National Humanism in Medicine Medal (Arnold P. Gold Foundation, Extraordinary GHHS leaders to be honored at the 2022 Gala. https://www.gold-foundation.org/newsroom/news/11-extraordinary-ghhs-leaders-to-be-honored-at-the-gold-gala/ , 2022) and a 2023 MacDowell Fellowship in Literature while working on her second book, a nonfiction memoir (MacDowell, Michele Harper: Literature Fellow. https://www.macdowell.org/artists/michele-harper , 2023).

Michele Harper, MD

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Ogochukwu M. Cox

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This chapter profiles Dr. Michele Harper, an award-winning physician, New York Times bestselling author, and nationally recognized speaker whose work centers on individual healing and social justice (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.). Growing up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family (Penguin Random House, Michele Harper [Author page]. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2175605/michele-harper/ , n.d.; Kelly, Ann Emerg Med 76(5):A20–A22, 2020), she discovered emergency medicine as a teenager when her brother was injured, protecting their mother (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.; Penguin Random House, Michele Harper [Author page]. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2175605/michele-harper/ , n.d.). After graduating from Harvard University with a BA in Psychology (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.; Penguin Random House, Michele Harper [Author page]. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2175605/michele-harper/ , n.d.), Dr. Harper earned her MD from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.; Kelly, Ann Emerg Med 76(5):A20–A22, 2020) and completed an emergency medicine residency at Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center in the South Bronx, where she received the Joel Gernsheimer Award for excellence in emergency medicine (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.; MacDowell, Michele Harper: Literature Fellow. https://www.macdowell.org/artists/michele-harper , 2023). Following her divorce just before beginning her attending position, she began her healing journey chronicled in “The Beauty in Breaking” (2020), published by Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House, The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/580340/the-beauty-in-breaking-by-michele-harper/ , 2020), which became a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback editions (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.; MacDowell. MacDowell awards spring-summer fellowships to 142 artists. https://www.macdowell.org/news/macdowell-awards-spring-summer-fellowships-to-142-artists , 2023, February 17) and was longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction (Harper, Michele Harper [Official website]. https://micheleharper.com/ , n.d.). Using the Japanese art of Kintsukuroi—repairing broken pottery with gold—as a metaphor, she explores how trauma can become beauty. Dr. Harper received the 2022 Gold Foundation National Humanism in Medicine Medal (Arnold P. Gold Foundation, Extraordinary GHHS leaders to be honored at the 2022 Gala. https://www.gold-foundation.org/newsroom/news/11-extraordinary-ghhs-leaders-to-be-honored-at-the-gold-gala/ , 2022) and a 2023 MacDowell Fellowship in Literature while working on her second book, a nonfiction memoir (MacDowell, Michele Harper: Literature Fellow. https://www.macdowell.org/artists/michele-harper , 2023).