Larry Culpepper

Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH, is Professor of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. He founded the department in 1997 and served as chair until 2011, under his leadership the department established a 25 bed inpatient service for Boston HealthNet CHC network, an obstetric and newborn service, a Sports Medicine program serving Boston area colleges and high schools, and a geriatric program.

Dr. Culpepper has conducted federally funded studies of depression and anxiety, diabetes, otitis media, and school-based and community interventions to improve pregnancy outcomes and to prevent teen pregnancies. He was 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. 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 6 federal expert panels for consensus committees or evidence-based centers. He has over 270 publications, was the initial family medicine editor of UpToDate, and is the editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Primary Care Companion.