Biography

Dr. Carpenter earned his Bachelor of Science in engineering and his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Michigan. He subsequently completed internal medicine residency at Duke University followed by infectious diseases fellowship at Johns Hopkins University before joining Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak as a faculty member in 2000. In addition to patient care, he initially focused on antimicrobial stewardship, serving as director of Beaumont’s stewardship program for fifteen years. He directed the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program for ten years (2005-2015) and currently serves in multiple roles for Beaumont, including head of the Section of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, vice chief of the Department of Medicine, physician executive for Beaumont Medical Group, and professor of medicine at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. He has received local, regional and national recognition by his colleagues for his clinical work, and he is consistently active in clinical research with multiple ongoing studies and numerous publications. Dr. Carpenter has also been active in the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Michigan Infectious Disease Society, and has served on the FDA Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee and the FDA Medical Devices Panel.

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