Board-certified orthopedic surgeon who spent her career fixing fractures, then built a practice devoted to preventing them. Founder of The Bone Health Clinic in Lenexa, Kansas, the Kansas City region’s first standalone prevention-focused bone health practice, and creator of the Demand the Scan movement.
Dr. Carpenter is a fellowship-trained shoulder and elbow surgeon whose career in the operating room, in community practice and in the care of veterans, showed her the same story on repeat: patients arriving with fractures that a decade of earlier attention could have prevented. She founded The Bone Health Clinic to change when that attention starts, pairing research-grade DXA bone density imaging with metabolic, hormonal and whole-person care. Through Demand the Scan, she urges women to ask for the bone-density conversation at 40, when their first mammogram conversation begins, rather than waiting for guidelines that start at 65.
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS). Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (FAAOS).
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Orthopedic surgery, Beaumont Health.
Shoulder and elbow surgery, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital.
American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES); Neer Circle honorary society; Bone Health & Osteoporosis Foundation.
The Bone Health Clinic · Demand the Scan · The BoneSpan™ Project.
“Through her leadership, innovation, and unwavering commitment to prevention-focused osteoporosis care, Dr. Carpenter is advancing patient outcomes.”Claire Gill, CEO, Bone Health & Osteoporosis Foundation
Patients: The Bone Health Clinic sees patients in Lenexa, Kansas and by telehealth. Hospitals and health systems: Dr. Carpenter advises on surgical optimization and bone health programs.
