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diane harper

diane medved harper is a professor and chair of the department of family and geriatric medicine at the university of louisville .
from 2009 to 2013 she was a professor at the university of missouri kansas city 's department of biomedical and health informatics .
from 1996 to 2009 she held a clinical , teaching , and research post at dartmouth medical school .
her area of expertise is human papillomavirus -lrb- hpv -rrb- and the diseases associated with it , as well as colposcopy , and she was the principal investigator of the clinical trials of gardasil and cervarix , vaccines against hpv .
she has since made statements raising concerns about both vaccines , and she recommends that patients be more explicitly informed of the risks associated with them .
she has also stated there is no data showing that gardasil remains effective at preventing cervical cancer beyond five years , and has written that vaccination efﬁcacy must last at least 15 years -- any less duration of efﬁcacy and cervical cancers are merely postponed , not prevented .
