latisha carter-blanks, md, mph

Dr. Latisha Carter-Blanks describes herself as a bread and butter, pediatrician. Her clinical practice is at Michigan Medicine Northville Health Center.  She has a strong interest in well child care and health supervision. Dr. Carter, as she is known by patients and colleagues, is a native Detroiter, who completed her medical training at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Michigan.  She also holds a Master of Public Health Degree with an emphasis in Maternal Child Health from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.  She began her career post residency training as an officer in the United States Air Force where she served as Medical Director of the Pediatrics Inpatient and Outpatient Services at Langley Air Force Base Hospital.  She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The University of Michigan Medical School where she also serves as a medical student lead for the second-year clerkship.  When Dr. Carter is not caring for patients or teaching residents and medical students, she enjoys watching sports. Her mantra is that she wouldn't do anything for your child that she wouldn't be willing to do for her own.  Dr. Carter is married and resides with her husband and daughter in a suburb just outside of Detroit.