| Larry Culpepper
is Professor of Family Medicine and the founding
Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine
at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Culpepper
also is Chief of Family Practice at Boston Medical
Center. He received his M.D. degree from Baylor
College of Medicine and his M.P.H. degree from
Boston University.
An active researcher, Dr. Culpepper has conducted
federally funded studies of depression and anxiety,
otitis media, and school-based and community interventions
to improve pregnancy outcomes and to prevent teen
pregnancies. He is the principal investigator
of an AHRQ funded developmental center for patient
safety research devoted to the study of problems
affecting low income and minority vulnerable populations
in ambulatory care settings, and co-investigator
of the Primary Care Anxiety Project, a study of
the course of anxiety disorders in primary care
settings.
He has served as President of the North American
Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG), and Chairman
of the Research Committee of the Society of Teachers
of Family Medicine (STFM). Dr. Culpepper directed
the International Primary Care Network, which
has conducted research in 14 countries, and was
on the Board of Directors of the Ambulatory Sentinel
Practice Network. He is the Chairman of the Board
of the Rhode Island Public Health Foundation.
Dr. Culpepper is a Primary Care Fellow of the
federal Health Resources and Services Administration,
and has chaired or served as a member of research
grant review committees for five NIH and other
federal agencies, and has served on six federal
expert panels for consensus committees or evidence-based
centers. He has served as a consultant to numerous
universities and regional and national foundations
regarding the development and conduct of primary
care research. Dr Culpepper co-chaired the guideline
panel on Otitis Media with Effusion for the American
Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy
of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head
and Neck Surgery, and is a member of the American
Academy of Pediatrics-American Academy of Family
Physicians panel on acute otitis media.
He is a member of The Depression and Bipolar Support
Alliance and the Anxiety Disorders Association
of America Scientific Advisory Boards. He is the
American editor of the Oxford Textbook of Primary
Medical Care, family medicine editor of UpToDate,
and the editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Primary Care Companion. In 1991 he received the
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Excellence
in Education Award, in 1997 he received the NAPCRG-STFM
Career Research Award, and in 1998 was elected
to the Institute of Medicine.
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