Yvonne Helen Carter CBE DL FRCGP FMedSci (16 April 1959 – 20 October 2009) was a British general practitioner (GP or family doctor) and Dean of the Warwick Medical School, a post she took up in 2004, after being the Vice-Dean.
Her career as a GP spanned 20 years, practising in a succession of inner city communities in Liverpool, Birmingham, East London and, until 2007, in Coventry.
She was also an academic GP and Honorary Consultant in Primary Care at Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust and a Non-Executive Director and Vice Chair at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.
She first trained at London's St Mary's Hospital Medical School[3] graduating in 1983 with a distinction in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
[citation needed] From 1992 to 1996 she was a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the University of Birmingham's Department of General Practice.
She became the youngest Professor of General Practice and Primary Care in the UK when she took up post as chair and Head of Department at Barts Hospital and the Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1996.