James H. Carter, M.D., M.Div. (1934-2007)

2003 Solomon Carter Fuller Award Recipient

Lecture Title: Culture/Racism and Ethnic Diversity with Past Corrective Actions Successes, and Failures

Dr. Carter received his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine and completed his residency in psychiatry and a research fellowship in community and social psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. He was the first African American full professor of psychiatry at the Duke University Medical Center, and he came to Duke in 1970 and served as a tenured professor for more than 20 years. Dr. Carter received his Master of Divinity degree from Shaw University Divinity School in Raleigh.

Dr. Carter was a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina. He is also Senior Consulting Psychiatrist and Co-Founder of the Social Work-Mental Health Unit at Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham and Medical Director of South Light, the judicial substance abuse program, in Raleigh, North Carolina. He wrote numerous scientific papers and authored several books, including Psychosocial Intervention with Aged African Americans and Death and Dying Among African Americans.

Dr. Carter was the recipient of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest honor given to North Carolina citizens for service to the people of that state. In 1994, the annual James H. Carter, Sr., Lecture Series, which provides a forum for cross-cultural issues, was endowed in his honor at Duke University. He was a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the recipient of the Solomon Carter Fuller Award in 2003.