Thomas Carpenter MD

Thomas O. Carpenter, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at the Yale School of Medicine.  He received his medical degree and general pediatrics training at the University of Alabama, and fellowship training in endocrinology at Boston Children’s Hospital.  He has been at Yale for 35 years and has been very active in the Yale Bone Program where he has focused his clinical and research efforts on metabolic bone diseases of children. His specific interests are in the fields of phosphate and vitamin D metabolism, and he serves as director of the Yale Center for X-Linked Hypophosphatemia. Dr. Carpenter and has authored over 200 articles, reviews, and book chapters related to metabolic bone disease in children.