Todd J. Carpenter, MD

I come from a family of doctors, but I wasn’t always interested in becoming a physician. My first job out of college was writing advertising and marketing materials for pharmaceutical companies. I enjoyed the process of taking complex medical phenomena and breaking them down into easily understandable information. However, I eventually realized that I wanted to be directly involved in taking care of people. After six years in advertising, I went to medical school.

What I love most about the field of radiation oncology is the quality of the relationships that I can form with my patients. I understand that treating cancer is not just about being able to offer the most advanced forms of treatment; it’s about understanding a patient’s individual needs and forming a partnership to help meet those needs.

Whether I am the first specialist a patient is seeing or the last, I strive to provide the compassion patients need when faced with such a diagnosis. While radiation has been used to treat cancer for more than a century, the new technology and developments I have access to ensure that I am able to offer patients more effective treatments than ever.

At Perlmutter Cancer Center, I am pleased to be able to offer my patients some of the most advanced technology in the field of radiation oncology. My team and I are internationally recognized leaders in using Cyberknife, and I have been extensively involved in research furthering the application of stereotactic and image-guided radiotherapy.