Carter served on the faculties of the University of Iowa (1981-1988), University of Houston and the Baylor College of Medicine (1988-1991), University of Illinois at Chicago (1991-1995) and he was the Chairman of the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Colorado (1995-2000). Carter returned to the University of Iowa in 2000 to focus on his research program. Carter is an internationally recognized expert in hypertension and team-based care. He is a past President of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. He has been a Fellow in the American Heart Association Council on High Blood Pressure Research (FAHA), a Fellow in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (FCCP) and a Fellow in the American Society of Hypertension (FASH). He was a member of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Insititute’s Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Joint National Committees on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC-5, 6, 7 & 8 [JNC-8 was renamed the 2014 guidelines]). He continues to collaborate with UI investigators on NIH grants involving the management of hypertension or cardiovascular disease.

Other areas of Expertise:

• Hypertension
• Cluster-randomized trials evaluating team-based care