Dr. Robert Carter III is a native of Louisiana. After receiving his B.S. in biology (1995) from Northwestern State (Louisiana), he completed an M.S. in biology from Southern University, a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences (2001) and M.P.H. in epidemiology (2003) both from the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, TX. Dr. Carter completed studies in epidemiology (2004) at Harvard School of Public Health. Over the past 13 years, Dr. Carter has served in the active duty U.S. Army in various assignments around the world. His assignments included: research physiologist, United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, MA and Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées, Grenoble, France; Medical Operations Officer/Science Advisor, Combined Joint Task Force Paladin, Afghanistan; Deputy Director for Medical Systems, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, Pentagon; White House Social Aide to the President and Mrs. Obama. He currently serves as the Science Advisor to U.S. Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. Carter has several adjunct faculty positions and he currently teaches an Anatomy and Physiology course for the University of Maryland (European Division). Dr. Carter has been a recipient of the APS-NIDDK Travel Minority Fellowship several times, a recipient of the APS Porter Physiology Fellowship, and is a member of first class (2000) of Bill Gates Millennium Scholars.
Dr. Carter’s research interests are the effects of extreme environments on human physiology and performance. He uses a combination of public health (epidemiological and clinical case studies), human and animal models to better understand the mechanisms of body temperature regulation that lead to exertional heat illness.