Stephanie Carlton is a management lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. She teaches courses on the business ecosystem of health care for the school’s traditional MBA and MD-MBA programs, as well as in the undergraduate program.  

Carlton has an extensive background across three dimensions of the U.S. health care economy — business, policy, and clinical. As a partner at McKinsey & Company, Carlton is a leader in McKinsey's Provider Performance Practice, focusing on growth, tech-enabled innovation, and workforce excellence. She also founded a place-based transformation with 20 CEO-level leaders to improve holistic health outcomes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Prior to joining McKinsey, she led Medicare and Medicaid issues on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Georgetown University Hospital. In 2022, she served as a resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, teaching in the Institute of Politics on "inclusive debate" for leaders.

Carlton graduated with a B.S. in nursing from Cedarville University, where she was valedictorian of the nursing class. She completed a nursing fellowship at Georgetown University Hospital and holds an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin.