Robert Carpenter practices Internal Medicine and Rheumatology in the Spalding office building on the campus of Edward Hospital. Dr. Carpenter has been on the staff of Edward Hospital and a member of the DuPage Medical Group since 1985.
Dr. Carpenter attended Wabash College and graduated Summa cum laude in 1976 with a degree in biology. He was a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa and won the John Mills award for achievement in the department of religion. He graduated from the University of Illinois School of Medicine in 1980. He then completed his Internal Medicine training at the University of Hawaii in 1983. He was an internal medicine fellow at the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Santa Clara, California and was a clinical instructor at Stanford University in 1984. He was then a fellow in Rheumatology at Northwestern University. Dr. Carpenter has been a member of the American College of Rheumatology since 1985 and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians since 1990. He is board certified in Internal Medicine.
Dr. Carpenter’s practice interests include the wide spectrum of diseases of adults and many rheumatologic diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, scleroderma, polymyositis, vasculitis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, osteoporosis, fibromyalgia, gout, and osteoarthritis. He has given a number of lectures over the years on topics related to Internal Medicine and rheumatic diseases and performs consults on outpatients and in hospital patients.
Dr. Carpenter is a clinical instructor at Rush Medical College and the University of Illinois Medical School. He and his wife, Sally, live in Naperville.
Robert Carpenter practices Internal Medicine and Rheumatology in the Spalding office building on the campus of Edward Hospital. Dr. Carpenter has been on the staff of Edward Hospital and a member of the DuPage Medical Group since 1985.
