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L. Philip Carter, M.D.

L. Philip Carter, M.D.
Phil Carter, the 55th President of the Western Neurosurgical Society, currently hails from Tucson, Arizona where he has been in private practice since 1997. His path to Tucson began with college at the University of Iowa, then medical school at Washington University in Saint Louis and subsequent residency at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. His grown-up career began with a 15 year stint on the faculty of the BNI where he was Chief of the Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery followed by 5 years as Chief of Neurosurgery at the University of Arizona then 3 years as Chief of Neurosurgery at the University of Oklahoma before settling in his current practice.

He has served as President of the Arizona Neurosurgical Society as well as Vice President, program chairman (twice) and By-Laws Committee chairman of the Western. He has authored over 100 book chapters and scientific articles and two books. In addition to the Western and the Arizona Society, he counts the AANS, CNS, Rocky Mountain and Society of Neurological Surgeons as his professional neurosurgical organizations.

Presidential Address 2009
(PDF 98KB)

Presidential Address 2006
(PDF 120KB)

Presidential Address 2005
(PDF 65KB)

 

 

 

 

 

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