Laura Jo Carlton, MD

Dr. Laura Carlton completed her undergraduate education at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. She majored in Chemistry and French and spent semesters abroad studying religion in Southeast Asia and neocolonialism in Senegal. After working on the Haiti cholera outbreak with the CDC’s Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, she continued her education at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, where she was awarded the Beatrice Tucker award for women’s health advocacy. She then returned to Atlanta for residency at Emory University, where she had the privilege to learn from the wonderful doctors, staff and patients at Grady Memorial Hospital. There, her research focused on disparities in cervical cancer screening and follow-up and received the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology trainee research award. She also served as a resident representative to the Graduate Medical Education committee. Her interests include adolescent health and family planning, health literacy, polycystic ovarian syndrome and the benefits of diet and exercise on women’s health. She has developed an interest in vaginal laparoscopy, performing hysterectomies, tubal ligations, salpingectomies, and other adnexal surgeries using v-notes method.

Dr. Carlton lives in West Asheville with her husband Wes and pesky dogs, Margot and Freya. Outside of work, she enjoys weightlifting, yoga, hiking the mountains of North Carolina, watching documentaries, speaking French and planning her next outdoor adventure.