Dr. Carpenter has been involved in undergraduate medical education for more than 25 years. He has developed curricula promoting the integration of clinical medicine within basic science education and then bringing that foundational information back full circle into clinical training. He has been a medical gross anatomy faculty member at three colleges of medicine and remains active in graduate as well as continuing medical education development.
Dr. Carpenter is a passionate advocate for improving how we educate, train, employ, support, and develop healthy members of healthcare teams. He helped to develop, lead, and serve in programs aimed at improving team member wellbeing within one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit healthcare systems. He serves as the director of Health & Wellbeing programs at the TAMU College of Medicine. In that role he aims to help improve the lives of healthcare professionals through inter-institutional collaboration, novel program development, and inter-professional research.