Christopher R. Carpenter, MD

Dr. Christopher Carpenter is residency trained in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Implementation and Innovation at Mayo Clinic-Rochester. He served on the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Board of Directors from 2019-2022 and continues to serve on the American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policy Committee. His research interests include diagnostics, geriatric emergency medicine, clinical practice guidelines, and implementation science. Dr. Carpenter is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Academic Emergency Medicine, as well as Associate Editor for both the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and Annals of Internal Medicine's ACP Journal Club. He co-authored the Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research (EQUATOR) Network's Standards for Reporting of Implementation Research (StaRI) reporting guidelines. Dr. Carpenter serves on the National Institute of Aging Clinician-Scientists Transdisciplinary Aging Research Leadership Core (https://clin-star.org/) and also developed and leads the SAEM Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in Emergency Departments (GRACE, see https://www.saem.org/publications/academic-emergency-medicine/grace) clinical practice guidelines. He is a co-Investigator and Implementation Science Core Lead for the Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research Network (GEAR, see https://gearnetwork.org/) and Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (https://gedcollaborative.com/), and he chairs the American College of Emergency Physician's Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Advisory Board (https://www.acep.org/geda/). He is the recipient of multiple national awards including the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association Excellence in Teaching, as well as the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine's (AGEM) Gerson-Sanders Award, the AGEM Mentorship Award, and the AGEM Pioneer Award.