Dr. Carlson earned his medical degree from the University of Utah's School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah. He fulfilled his internship and residency in internal medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He completed a fellowship in cardiology at the Texas Heart Institute through the Baylor College of Medicine, located in Houston, Texas. Dr. Carlson earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Dr. Carlson is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and its subspecialties in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Interventional Cardiology, as well as the National Board of Medical Examiners. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. In 2021, Dr. Carlson took a sabbatical for four years to be a medical advisor for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but is now back doing clinical work with the Piedmont Heart Institute Physicians Group in interventional cardiology at the Atlanta Buckhead office. In the past he served as the cathlab director of Georgia Baptist Medical Center and the medical director for the Piedmont Heart Institute Buckhead Campus cardiologists.