Yvette S. Mccarter PhD, D(ABMM)

Yvette S. McCarter, Ph.D., is a University of Florida professor of pathology and is a specialist in medical and public health microbiology at UF Health Jacksonville. She serves as associate chair for the UF Department of Pathology - Jacksonville and is director of the Microbiology Laboratory. She received her doctorate from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia, and completed a microbiology fellowship at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut.

McCarter is a member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), and is a fellow of the Association of Clinical Scientists. She is currently a Co-Director for the First Coast Infectious Disease/Clinical Microbiology Symposium and Co-Chair of the American Society for Microbiology Microbe Program Committee. She is the Microbiology Associate Editor for Lab Medicine and currently serves on the ASCP LabQ Editorial Board. McCarter has previously served as the Chair of the American Board of Medical Microbiology and has been a member of the Laboratory Standards Development Technical Advisory Panel of The Joint Commission, the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel. She also serves on the editorial board of several scholarly journals and is an ad hoc reviewer for several others. 

McCarter’s research interests include utilization controls in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, cost-effective laboratory medicine, and the evaluation of new diagnostic tests and antimicrobials.