Dr. Harman is co-director of the Center for Advanced Fetal Care, director of the division of maternal and fetal medicine as well as professor and vice chair of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of Manitoba, where he also served his residency. He completed a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Manitoba and Oxford University, and was a faculty member in the department of obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Harman has conducted extensive research on isoimmunization.

He has published extensively on fetal medicine and has served as a reviewer for the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and many others. He published Invasive Fetal Testing and Treatment, and is editor of Diagnosis and Management of Fetal Anomalies. Dr. Harman is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, The Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada and the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society.