Alexis Carter, MD

Alexis Carter, MD, is the Physician Informaticist for the Laboratory at Childrenís Healthcare of Atlanta and an Adjunct Associate Professor within the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University. Dr. Carter is teaching faculty for the Clinical Informatics Board Review Course presented by the American Medical Informatics Association. She is chair of the Electronic Health Records and Genomics Working Group within the Association of Molecular Pathology, and she is the current Secretary for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute document development committee for two-dimensional barcoding for both clinical and anatomic pathology laboratory specimens. She was the senior author for the guideline on validation of next-generation sequencing bioinformatics pipelines from the Association of Molecular Pathology, the College of American Pathologists, and the American Medical Informatics Association. In the College of American Pathologists, Dr. Carter is the Vice-Chair of the Informatics Committee and helped develop the original validation guideline for Whole Slide Imaging. She is a former chair of the International Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Special Interest Group for SNOMED-CT International, a former president of the Association of Pathology Informatics and was the inaugural and re-elected chair of the Informatics Subdivision of the Association for Molecular Pathology. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Pathology Informatics, an Associate Editor for Administrative and Regulatory Affairs for Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a reviewer for multiple scientific journals in molecular diagnostics, genetics and informatics. She is board certified in clinical informatics, molecular genetic pathology, anatomic pathology and clinical pathology.