Dr. Carpenter’s current research interests focus on patient-provider communication issues for individuals living with chronic disease. She is particularly interested in how triadic communication patterns among children with asthma, their caregivers, and their health care providers influence children’s health behaviors and outcomes, including medication adherence and asthma control. She presented two abstracts about her work on patient-caregiver-provider communication issues at the 2011 meeting of Society of Behavioral Medicine in Washington, D.C..