He earned his bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Harvard College, and attended medical school at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He completed his surgical training in the Harvard Combined Plastic Surgery Residency Program, followed by an additional year of fellowship in hand and microvascular surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He joined the BWH faculty in 2009, and has since had a clinical focus in complex reconstructive surgery of the trunk and extremities. Carty is co-director of the BWH Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction Program and director of the BWH Lower Extremity Transplant Program. His research interests are focused primarily on limb restoration, both through transplantation and complex reconstruction.