Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology) and of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation

Clinical Professor of Nursing

Director, Yale Center for X-Linked Hypophosphatemia

Medical Director, Hospital Research Unit

Dr Carpenter has maintained a career-long involvement in metabolic bone diseases in children. He currently serves as the director of the Yale Center for X-linked Hypophosphatemia (XLH). As the Medical Director of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation's Hospital Research Unit. 

His research interests center on the pathophysiology and development of therapy for XLH, the most common inherited form of rickets. He has an interest in the metabolism and function of vitamin D and disorders related to vitamin D in children. 

He has published over 200 articles, reviews and chapters with a focus on metabolic bone diseases in children and is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

Education and training

● Fellow - Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital, Boston (1983)

● Intern & Resident - University of Alabama Hospitals, Birmingham (1980)

● MD - University of Alabama (1977)