Dr. Carter is a professor of emergency medicine and vice chair of clinical and faculty affairs at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is the senior associate medical director for the New York Presbyterian Emergency Medical Services System.

As a member of the third paramedic class in the City of New York, he began his medical career as a paramedic at Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx in 1977. He completed his emergency medicine residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center, where he served as chief resident and associate program director. He was the founding director of the New York Presbyterian emergency medicine residency program. Prior to that, he was the program director for the emergency medicine residency of New York University/Bellevue Medical Center, where he graduated their first class.

Dr. Carter has served on many national committees, including as chair of the Residency Consultation Service for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is past chair of the ACGME Review Committee for Emergency Medicine and served as vice chair of the Council of Review Committee Chairs. He is also a founding member of the ACGME Task Force on Physician Well-Being and served on the inaugural ACGME International Review Committee-International. He is a senior member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

He has delivered over one hundred lectures nationally. He serves as a reviewer for several journals and has authored numerous papers and textbook chapters. He lives in Bronxville, New York with his wife JoAnn and their three sons.