Dr. Maia Carter joined the Veterans Health Administration in 2011 in Northern California and later transferred to the Las Vegas Veterans Health Administration in 2013. She was promoted to Assistant Chief of Primary Care and soon after Chief of Primary Care in 2015. During that time, she oversaw 60 primary care teams in 8 unique locations across the Las Vegas valley and is accountable for the delivery of timely quality care to the men and women veterans of Southern Nevada. Dr. Carter has been successful in implementing and expanding VA Video Connect at her field station in Las Vegas, integrating a telework component and establishing VVC within the medical education program. She also has successfully partnered with the clinical resource hub with providing gap coverage for primary care teams since 2018. In 2021, she was promoted to the position of Director of Virtual Care Integration for the Office of Primary Care where she has worked to implement and expand virtual tools including VA Video Connect within the field in partnership with program office, VISN, and facility leadership. She also has direct oversite over the Video Blood Pressure Visit Program, sponsored by the Office of Rural Health. Dr. Carter is an assistant professor at UNLV School of Medicine and precepts resident physicians. She is a graduate of the VA Healthcare Leadership Development Program class of 2019. She is a board member of the Nevada chapter -American College of HealthCare Executive Organization, where she also co-chairs the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee. She has achieved Fellow status for the American College of Health Care Executives. Dr. Carter is originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She attended Michigan State University and achieved a bachelor's degree in Physiology in 2000. She also was the recipient of the Richard Lee Featherstone Endowed Prize for compassion and humanity. She completed medical school and graduate school at The George Washington University graduating in 2005 with both a Medical Degree and a master’s degree in Public Health. She completed an Internal Medicine residency program at Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, California. Upon graduation in 2008, she completed a preventive cardiology fellowship at Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City Missouri. As music and movement brings her joy, Dr. Carter enjoys hip-hop step aerobics, African dance, Chicago style line dancing and circuit training. She is a proud mother of 2 amazing elementary aged girls, 2 lionhead rabbits and shih tzu puppy.