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Burn Medical Director, Assistant Professor of Surgery
Tufts University/Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine, United States
Dr. Carter earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. He completed his residency in general surgery at the University of Washington, where he also completed an NIH/NRSA T32 research fellowship in Trauma and Burns immunopathology. He subsequently completed a Burn & Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA.
Dr. Carter specializes in burn care including acute management, critical care and burn reconstructive procedures. He also serves as the medical director of the Burn & Soft Tissue Service (BST) at Maine Medical Center. The Maine Medical Center Burn program currently sees approximately 175 in-patient burn admissions and nearly 600 outpatient visits. The BST service is the only provider of comprehensive burn care to burn-injured patients in the State of Maine and Northern New Hampshire with a catchment area of roughly 1.5 million people. The service also cares for complex wounds and cutaneous diseases that require surgical management. In addition to his clinical responsibilities to the BST service, Dr. Carter is an attending on the trauma and emergency general surgery services as well. Dr. Carter has a strong research interest in burn resuscitation & modulation of the inflammatory response to injury. He has received internal and external grant funding to pursue his basic and translational research interests.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM
