Christopher R. Carpenter, MD, MSc

Dr. Carpenter is a professor of emergency medicine and vice chair of implementation and innovation at Mayo Clinic-Rochester. He is residency-trained in both emergency medicine and internal medicine. Dr. Carpenter served on the SAEM  Board of Directors from 2019 to 2022 and continues to serve on the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Clinical Policy Committee. His research interests focus on diagnostics, geriatric emergency medicine, clinical practice guidelines, and implementation science.

Dr. Carpenter earned his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine in and completed his internal medicine residency at Allegheny General Hospital, where he served as chief resident. He also holds a Master of Science in clinical investigation from Washington University in St. Louis, awarded in 2007.  

Dr. Carpenter is deputy editor-in-chief of Academic Emergency Medicine and serves as an 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 also serves on the National Institute on Aging Clinician-Scientists Transdisciplinary Aging Research Leadership Core and developed and leads the SAEM Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in Emergency Departments (GRACE) clinical practice guidelines.

Dr. Carpenter is a co-investigator and implementation science core lead for the Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (GEAR) and the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (GEDC). Additionally, Dr. Carpenter chairs ACEP’s Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Advisory Board. 

Dr. Carpenter has received multiple national awards, including the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association Excellence in Teaching Award, as well as the SAEM Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine’s (AGEM) Gerson-Sanders Award, SAEM AGEM Mentorship Award, and SAEM AGEM Pioneer Award.