Michael Harper

Michael D. Harper, MD is an Intensivist with MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., and is boarded in both Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. He has extensive experience in the ICU care of thoracic and abdominal transplant recipients, patients receiving cardiothoracic surgery, and in the placement and management of ECMO both for ARDS and cardiogenic shock.

He has spent the last five years helping to manage a statewide ECMO referral system in the Midwest, specializing in the deployment of mobile ECMO teams. He has previously served on the conference planning committee of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, and currently is serving as a member of a workforce dedicated to studying shock in the thoracic transplant patient population with the American Society of Transplantation. His clinical and research interests align at the vital physiologic point of impaired oxygen delivery: a hallmark of both ARDS and shock states.