Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH

 

 

Consultant – Boston University Global Health Collaborative

 

 

 

Dr. Culpepper is the founding Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University. He received his M.D from Baylor College of Medicine and his M.P.H. from Boston University. He has served as President of the North American Primary Care Group (NAPCRG), Chairman of the Research Committee of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), and Chairman of the Board of Rhode Island Public Health Foundation. He 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 5 NIH and other federal agencies. He has received the STFM Excellence in Education, the STFM-NAPCRG Hames Research awards, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1998. He has conducted research in Otitis Media, and school-based and community interventions to improve pregnancy outcomes and to prevent teen pregnancies.

Dr. Culpepper currently is the principal investigator of an AHRQ funded center for patient safety research devoted to low income and minority vulnerable populations in ambulatory care settings, principal investigator of interventions to improve the care of uninsured patients and urban patients with diabetes and depression, co-principal investigator of a study to decrease delays in CHC patient follow-up for abnormal mammography, and co-investigator of a long term study of the course of anxiety disorders in primary care settings. Dr Culpepper co-chairs a 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 AAP-AAFP panel on acute otitismedia. He is the family medicine editor of UpToDate, and the editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Primary Care Companion.