Ebony Carter Email and Phone Number

Dr. Ebony B. Carter is a tenured Associate Professor at Washington University School of Medicine. She practices Maternal Fetal Medicine and serves as Chief of the Division of Clinical Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her research focuses on optimizing management of medical co-morbidities during pregnancy through a lifecourse approach, innovations in evidence-based prenatal care, and community based participatory research to promote reproductive health equity. She has extensive experience in the design and implementation of obstetric clinical trials. Her research is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and she is a recipient of the American Diabetes Association’s Pathway to Stop Diabetes Award. Dr. Carter is the Principal Investigator of a recently funded R01 through the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health on behalf of the Elevating Voices, Addressing Depression, Toxic Stress and Equity in Group Prenatal Care (EleVATE GC) Women’s Collaborative—a community coalition led by Black mothers, clinicians, federally qualified community health centers, hospitals, academic centers, community organizations, and coordinated by the St. Louis Integrated Health Network. She completed the Norman F. Gant/American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology Health Policy Fellowship at the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the NICHD Pediatric Study Section.Dr. Carter earned her undergraduate degree in human biology with honors from Stanford University, Master of Public Health in health policy from the University of Michigan, and medical degree from Duke University. She completed residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Harvard integrated program at Brigham and Women’s/Massachusetts General Hospital and was the resident representative on the board of the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) during that time. Dr. Carter served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School as an academic general obstetrician/gynecologist and was the recipient of the Eleanor and Miles Shore Award and the Brigham and Women’s Faculty Career Development Award prior to coming to Washington University School of Medicine to pursue fellowship training in Maternal Fetal Medicine. Dr Carter is the author of more than sixty papers and a frequently sought out speaker on the topics of reproductive health equity, diabetes in pregnancy, and innovations in prenatal care, such as group care models.