Brian S. Carter MD

Dr. Carter is a board-certified Neonatologist who has practiced in academic medicine for 35 years. He is also trained in bioethics and palliative care. His current practice focuses on providing follow-up care to NICU graduates and serving as a consultant neonatologist in the Fetal Health Center. He enjoys mentoring medical students, residents, and fellows locally and across the country. He is the local PI for the NIH-funded multi-site ECHO study of a cohort of babies born <30 weeks’ gestation. He publishes, lectures, and teaches in biomedical ethics and is the Co-Director of the CMH Certificate Program in Pediatric Bioethics. He is a pioneer in pediatric palliative, having contributed to the field for 20 years, and presently focuses on neonatal-perinatal palliative care.

He has authored over 125 peer-reviewed articles and 40 book chapters addressing pediatric and neonatal care, ethics, and palliative care, and is a contributing author and editor of Merenstein & Gardner’s Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care; the 1st textbook on pediatric palliative care, Palliative Care for Infants, Children & Adolescents; and the 1st textbook on neonatal-perinatal palliative care, Handbook of Perinatal & Neonatal Palliative Care – with Rana Limbo and Charlotte Wool. Dr. Carter is a past chairman of the AAP’s Section on Hospice & Palliative Medicine and has received honors from the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (2003), the William A. Silverman Lecture in Ethics from the Pediatric Academic Societies (2008), and in 2018 he received the William T. and Marjorie Sirridge Endowed Professorship in Medical Humanities & Bioethics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine. In 2020 he became the Chairman of the Department of Medical Humanities & Bioethics at UMKC, School of Medicine and in 2021 he became the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Clinical Pediatrics. He previously served on the faculty of Vanderbilt University and the Medical College of Georgia after leaving the US Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1996.