Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH
Professor and Chairman of Family Medicine
Boston University Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH, 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 MD degree from Baylor College of Medicine and his MPH 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 currently
is the principal investigator of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-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 is a member of The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance and the Anxiety
Disorders Association of America Scientific Advisory Boards. In 1997, he received
the NAPCRG-STFM Career Research Award and in 1998 was elected to the Institute
of Medicine.
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