Bio

Dr. Carter is a Professor of Surgery at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and serves as the Director of Trauma and Burn Services at University Medical Center of New Orleans. He completed his general surgery training at Wake Forest University, followed by fellowships in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care and in Burn Care at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He later completed a third fellowship in applied learning and healthcare design at Wake Forest University before joining the trauma and burn faculty.

Dr. Carter has been credited with building a team-based simulation program and reducing sentinel events to zero across 80,000 consecutive surgical cases as a resident and leading numerous clinical trials. In 2017, he relocated to New Orleans to establish the region’s only burn center, which achieved verification in just two years. He has since expanded the burn research program to more than $100 million in funding.

Dr. Carter has received multiple teaching awards, the ABA Moyer Award, Womack Award, and was named a “Healthcare Hero” after contributing to a reduction in burn mortality in southern Louisiana by more than 50 percent. He cmpleted his term as President of the American Burn Association in 2026 and sits on several boards overseeing burn care.

His clinical and research interests primarily focus on education and the development of innovative technologies that improve value by enhancing access, efficiency, and health economics.