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James Lester Harmon

Associate Clinical Professor Emeritus in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing
Box 3322 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
307TRENT Drive Room 3015, Duke School of Nursing, Durham, NC 27710

Overview


Les Harmon came to nursing as a second career in the early 1990s and has focused his career on HIV clinical management, HIV clinical research, and HIV clinical education. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in 1977, and later moved to San Francisco, where he worked in architectural design, graphic design, cartography, and medical illustration. In 1991 he earned a Bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of San Francisco’s accelerated BSN program. In 1997 he earned a Master’s degree in nursing from Duke. He joined the school’s regular rank faculty in 2008 and earned a DNP from Duke University in 2012.

As a faculty member, he currently teaches nurse practitioner students in the MSN Program and directs the HIV Specialty. He has maintained a clinical practice in HIV primary care since 1997 and currently practices part time at Warren-Vance Community Health Center in Henderson, NC. He is credentialed as an HIV Specialist through the American Academy of HIV Medicine.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Clinical Professor Emeritus in the School of Nursing · 2020 - Present School of Nursing

In the News


Published February 8, 2017
Nursing Readies for the Next Generation in the War on HIV
Published June 27, 2013
The New Nursing Classroom

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Recent Publications


Improving HCV Risk Assessment and Testing in a Federally Qualified Health Center Setting in Baltimore, Maryland.

Journal Article Journal of community health · August 2020 Approximately 4.1 million adults in the United States have past or current hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Despite efforts to test at least once for the 1945-1965 birth cohort population and others identified at risk, the completion of the annual risk a ... Full text Cite

Integrating Preexposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Into a Network of Community Health Centers

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · March 1, 2020 Although preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is more than 92% effective in preventing human immunodeficiency virus, primary care providers underprescribe it. This quality improvement project was designed to increase the provision of PrEP to people at high risk ... Full text Cite

Video-Based Preconception Counseling for Women Living With HIV.

Journal Article The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · January 2020 Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


HIV Nurse Practitioner Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Health Resources and Service Administration · 2013 - 2018

Orthopedic Adult Nurse Practitioner Specialty

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEFaculty Member · Awarded by Health Resources and Service Administration · 2011 - 2014

Fatigue in HIV Positive People

ResearchClinical Associate · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2010

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Education, Training & Certifications


Duke University, School of Nursing · 2012 D.N.P.
Duke University · 1997 M.S.N.
University of California, San Francisco · 1991 B.S.