Carl Weems is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Iowa State University.

[3] Weems is the principal investigator of the main ISU Child Welfare Research and Training Project grants (CWRTP).

He is also the Co-Principal Investigator/Co-director of Enabling Sustainable Community Health through a Transdisciplinary Translational Research Network (UTURN).

[6][7][8] The revised model has generated scientific and community use as an alternative view of the effect of adverse childhood experiences.

[11] Additionally, he has contributed to intervention development and prevention programming for child and youth anxiety and PTSD.