 Darren Carter, M.D., Assistant Clinical
Professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University
and a Research Scientist at the HIV Center where he manages
the Center's website. After completing an internship in
Family Medicine, Dr. Carter completed the post-doctoral
fellowship program at the HIV Center focusing on the clinical
medical ethics of HIV treatment. He developed measurement
tools to assess medical student social attitudes and their
relationship to willingness to treat HIV-infected patients.
In 1999, Dr. Carter helped to install and manage the electronic
medical record system for the New York Presbyterian Hospital
Department of Family Medicine. In 2002, he began his own
company, Provistas, dedicated to improving the accuracy
of medical coding and Medicare compliance.
EDUCATION
| University of North
Dakota,
Grand Forks, ND |
B.Sc. |
1992 |
Biology |
| University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL |
M.D. |
1997 |
Medicine |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 1995-1997 |
Lecturer, "HIV and
Ethics," Doctor-Patient Relationship, University
of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago,
IL |
| 1997-1998 |
Internship, Columbia-Presbyterian
Hospital, Center for Family Medicine, New York,
NY |
| 1998-2000 |
Research Fellow, New
York Psychiatric Institute, HIV Center for Clinical
and Behavioral Studies, New York, NY |
| 2000-present |
Research Scientist,
Research Foundation for Mental Health, New York
State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY |
| 2000-present |
Webmaster, HIV Center for Clinical
and Behavioral Studies, New York, NY |
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
| 1996-2000 |
Gay and Lesbian Medical
Association,
Governing Director |
| 1998-2000 |
Gay and Lesbian Medical
Association, Policy Chair |
|
1998-2000 |
Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical
Association, Ad hoc reviewer |
|
1998-2001 |
AIDS and Behavior, Ad hoc reviewer |
PUBLICATIONS
Carter, D., Lantos, J., Hughes, J.: Reassessing
medical students willingness to treat HIV-infected
patients. Academic Medicine, 71:1250-1252, 1996.
Carter, D., Roberts, L.: Medical student attitudes
toward patients with HIV-infection. A comparison study
of 169 first-year students at the University of Chicago
and the University of New Mexico. Journal of the Gay
and Lesbian Medical Association, 1:209-226, 1997.
Carter, D.: Using attitude surveys in medical ethics
research and teaching: The example of undergraduate
willingness to treat HIV-infected patients. Medical
Education, 32:121-126, 1998.
Carter, D.: Book Review, sexual ecology: AIDS and
the destiny of gay men, Gabriel Rotello. Journal of the
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, 2:85-86, 1998.
Roberts, L.W., Warner, T.D., Carter, D., Frank, E.,
Ganzini, L., Lyketsos, C.: Caring for medical students
as patients: Access to services and care-seeking
practices of 1,027 students at nine medical schools.
Academic Medicine, 75:272-7, 2000.
Carter, D.: Healthy People 2010: A Blueprint for the
Decade Ahead. Body Positive,
http://www.thebody.com/bp/dec00/2010.html, 2000.
Roberts LW, Warner TD, Lyketsos C, Frank E, Ganzini
L, Carter D.: Perceptions of academic vulnerability
associated with personal illness: a study of 1,027
students at nine medical schools. Collaborative
Research Group on Medical Student Health. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 42(1): 1-15,
2001. |
