Alexis Carter MD
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor
- (404) 785-0326
- abcart2@emory.edu
- @PathByteChic
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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Laboratory Administration
2220 N Druid Hills Rd
Overview
Alexis Carter, MD, is an actively practicing Molecular Genetic Pathologist and Physician Informaticist for the Laboratory at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta and an Adjunct Associate Professor within the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University. She is the Program Director for the inaugural Emory Clinical Informatics Fellowship program and is teaching faculty for the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Clinical Informatics Board Review Course for physicians. She is the chair of the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) Electronic Health Records and Genomics Working Group and the immediate past AMP secretary/treasurer. She is Vice Chair of the Informatics Committee for the College of American Pathologists and 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 AMP, the College of American Pathologists (CAP), and AMIA. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, an Associate Editor for Administrative and Regulatory Affairs for Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, an editorial board member of the Journal of Pathology Informatics, 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.
Academic Appointment
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine
Education
Degrees
- MD from Medical College of Georgia
- BS from University of Georgia
Research
Focus
- My research focuses on using information technology in the laboratory to immediately improve healthcare delivery for patients at the local, national and international levels. My research has included projects in data management, ontologies, barcoding, digital pathology, patient portals, software development and education.
Publications
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Avoiding Unintended Consequences of Pediatric Blood Order Set Updates through In Situ Usability Testing.
Appl Clin Inform Volume: 15 Page(s): 763 - 770
08/01/2024 Authors: Thompson SA; Williams H; Rzewnicki D; Orenstein E; Carter AB; Rollins M; Rogers B; Kandaswamy S -
Laboratory Test Names Matter: A Survey on What Works and What Doesn't Work for Orders and Results.
Arch Pathol Lab Med Volume: 148 Page(s): 155 - 167
02/01/2024 Authors: Carter AB; Berger AL; Schreiber R -
Proceedings of the Association for Pathology Informatics Bootcamp 2022.
J Pathol Inform Volume: 14 Page(s): 100331
01/01/2023 Authors: Obstfeld AE; Brodsky V; Carter AB; Gershkovich P; Haymond S; Levy B; Sinard J; Sellers D; Stoffel M; Jackups R -
Influence of user-centered clinical decision support on pediatric blood product ordering errors.
Blood Transfus Volume: 21 Page(s): 3 - 12
01/01/2023 Authors: Orenstein EW; Rollins M; Jones J; Kandaswamy S; Boudreaux J; Carter AB; Josephson CD -
Comprehensive Genomic Profiling of High-Risk Pediatric Cancer Patients Has a Measurable Impact on Clinical Care.
JCO Precis Oncol Volume: 6 Page(s): e2100451
04/01/2022 Authors: Summers RJ; Castellino SM; Porter CC; MacDonald TJ; Basu GD; Szelinger S; Bhasin MK; Cash T; Carter AB; Castellino RC -
Cryptic t(6;11) KMT2A rearrangement in a pediatric acute myeloid leukemia patient detected by next-generation sequencing and dual-fusion FISH analysis.
Pediatr Blood Cancer Volume: 69 Page(s): e29428
03/01/2022 Authors: Raghunandan S; Jain J; Saxe D; Pauly M; Aljudi AA; Ketterling RP; Carter AB; Raikar SS -
Lessons Learned from OpenNotes Learning Mode and Subsequent Implementation across a Pediatric Health System.
Appl Clin Inform Volume: 13 Page(s): 113 - 122
01/01/2022 Authors: Murugan A; Gooding H; Greenbaum J; Boudreaux J; Blanco R; Swerlick A; Sauer C; Liu S; Bhatia A; Carter A -
Electronic Health Records and Genomics: Perspectives from the Association for Molecular Pathology Electronic Health Record (EHR) Interoperability for Clinical Genomics Data Working Group.
J Mol Diagn Volume: 24 Page(s): 1 - 17
01/01/2022 Authors: Carter AB; Abruzzo LV; Hirschhorn JW; Jones D; Jordan DC; Nassiri M; Ogino S; Patel NR; Suciu CG; Temple-Smolkin RL -
Opinion: Standardizing gene product nomenclature-a call to action.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Volume: 118
01/19/2021 Authors: Fujiyoshi K; Bruford EA; Mroz P; Sims CL; O'Leary TJ; Lo AWI; Chen N; Patel NR; Patel KP; Seliger B -
Use of LOINC for interoperability between organisations poses a risk to safety.
Lancet Digit Health Volume: 2 Page(s): e569
11/01/2020 Authors: Carter AB; de Baca ME; Luu HS; Campbell WS; Stram MN