Yvonne Carter - Medical Career

Medical Career

Carter attended Notre Dame High School in Liverpool. She first trained at London's St Mary's Hospital Medical School graduating in 1983 with a distinction in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

She completed a General Practice Vocational Training Scheme in Liverpool and became a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in 1987. In 1990 she became an Honorary Research Fellow at Keele University and was awarded a three year Royal College of General Practitioners Research Training Fellowship. She was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine in 1994 by the University of London. In the same year she was awarded a Fellowship of the RCGP.

From 1992-96 she was a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the University of Birmingham's Department of General Practice. She became the youngest Professor of General Practice and Primary Care in the UK when she took up post as Chair and Head of Department at Barts Hospital and the Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1996. In 2001, she became Head of the Division of Community Sciences and in 2002, following restructuring in the School, became Director of the Institute of Community Health Sciences.