|  Reginald
D. Carter, Ph.D., PA
Director, PA History Office
Department of Community and Family Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC Class of 1978
Induction: 2002
Reginald Carter is a graduate of Wake Forest University (BS and
Ph.D.), Winston-Salem, NC. He has served on the Duke University
Medical Center faculty for over 30 years, holding joint appointments
in the departments of Community and Family Medicine and Cell Biology.
He has been with the Duke PA Program since 1972, first as a teacher,
then Associate Director and eventually Division Chief and Program
Director. Dr. Carter is director of the PA History Office and the
Society for the Preservation of Physician Assistant History.
Dr. Carter's contributions include service on the Research and
Development Committee of the AAPA and APAP, which laid a foundation
for documentation of the profession that is unparalleled in any
other profession. As president APAP, he wrote grants to fund the
first major workforce studies on PAs and as a member of the Education
and Research Foundation (predecessor to the PA Foundation), he helped
establish small research awards focused on PA workforce issues.
As NCCPA commissioner, Dr. Carter helped usher in a new age of computer-based
testing. He chaired and served on various other PA professional
committees; authored many articles, chapters and reports on PAs;
and served as reviewer of federal training grants and small research
grants awarded by the PA Foundation. He is co-editor of a landmark
book on PAs entitled Alternatives in Health Care Delivery: Emerging
Roles for Physician Assistants and co-wrote and produced a 35
min. videotape entitled, Physician Assistant: History of a Health
Manpower Innovation, used to introduce PA students to the PA
concept. He has served four 3-year terms as a trustee of the North
Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC and recently
ended a 4-year appointment on the National Advisory Board for Partnership
for Quality Education focused on educating primary care residents,
PAs and nurse practitioners in managed care environments. He has
been a staunch advocate for preserving the history of the PA profession
and is currently developing an on-line, searchable archival database
and virtual illustrated history web site for the profession. Among many awards and certificates of appreciation, Dr. Carter
has received the Twentieth Anniversary Appreciation Award from the
American Academy of Physician Assistants (1988), the Distinguished
Alumnus Award from the Duke University Physician Assistant Program
(1996), and the Presidential Award, from the American Academy of
Physician Assistants (2001). < < < Back
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