William R. Carpenter, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Administration in UNC's School of Public Health, the Epidemiologist for the North Carolina Comprehensive Cancer Program, a Research Fellow of the UNC-Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, a Member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center where he is also a Co-Director of the Carolina Community Network's Policy and Dissemination Core, and a Research Associate at Shaw University’s Institute for Health, Social, and Community Research. He completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Cancer Control Education Program at the UNC-Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center under the mentorship of Paul Godley, MD PhD, and earned his PhD from the Department of Health Policy and Administration in UNC's School of Public Health. His training and research have centered on organizational and environmental characteristics associated with cancer care and clinical trial enrollment, cancer epidemiology, and the diffusion of innovations, including the cross-cutting theme of racial disparities in cancer care. His work as a researcher builds upon ten years' practical experience as an administrator at Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina, as well as prior clinical and clinical research management experience. His career goal focuses on the role of cancer clinical research in the dissemination of innovations and the delivery of high quality cancer care, provider-based research networks, assuring expanded and equal access to cancer clinical trials, and cancer care quality and outcomes. He currently is a lead investigator on an NCI-funded study (R01) examining the implementation, impact, sustainability, and the business case for the NCI's Community Clinical Oncology Program, a cancer-focused practice-based research network. He is also co-investigator on several studies examining various issues of access to cancer care and the diffusion of cancer innovations.
Prior to this, Bill was the Manager of Operations for the Department of Medicine at Duke University. He worked with the Department Chair and Vice-chairs to review and manage new and ongoing clinical operations as well as evaluating and integrating new initiatives. Prior to joining Duke, he was the Administrator for Emergency Services at the University of North Carolina. There, he served as the Business Manager for Emergency Services and Aeromedical and Ground Transport in addition to serving simultaneously as the Business Manager for the Medical School Department of Emergency Medicine. He has served as an administrator in a hospital-owned Management Services Organization in Charlottesville, Virginia; a health policy research associate with the Williamson Institute at the Medical College of Virginia; a clinical research associate in Emergency Medicine and Radiation Oncology with the Medical College of Virginia; and an Emergency Department Nurse's Assistant.
He earned his Doctorate (PhD) in Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), where he was the recipient of the Harry T. Phillips Award for outstanding teaching by a doctoral student, and the Jean Yates Doctoral Student Award recognizing scholarship in health services research and contributions to the discipline. A predoctoral fellowship in the NCI-funded UNC-Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Cancer Control Education Program (LCCC CCEP) supported his doctoral dissertation research. This investigation included an 11-year longitudinal analysis of the effect of environmental factors, organizational characteristics, and inter-organizational network relationships on cancer treatment and cancer prevention/control clinical trial accrual in the National Cancer Institute’s Community Clinical Oncology Program. Prior to this he graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, and went on to earn a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) from the Medical College of Virginia (MCV), where he was the recipient of the Stuart D. Ogren Scholarship for academic performance and professional development.
Bill's teaching interests center or organizational behavior and design of health care organizations. He was a Teaching Fellow with the Department of Health Policy and Administration at UNC's School of Public Health and the Principal Instructor for HPAA 83: Introduction to Health Care Organization Theory, Structure, and Behavior -- a core course for Seniors in UNC's BSPH program. He is currently co-instructor of HPAA 204: Principles of Health Organization Leadership and Management. He was the Graduate Teaching Assistant for Dr. Arnold Kaluzny for three years, and lectured often in the Master's Program and Doctoral Program organizational behavior courses.
