These topics are all ongoing with the aid of various medical students and residents.  One honors medical student has taken a preliminary plan all the way to presentation in a national meeting and publication in a national journal over the past three years.  Others have been active in summer projects, co-authored various papers, and become co-principal investigators of ongoing research projects including current ones studying relative efficacy of various local anesthetics in humans and relative efficacy of various low-frequency ultrasound, microbubble, and tPA combination therapies in a bench-top laboratory setting.

A new research facility is scheduled for late 2003 in the Barton Research Building.  This will house an angiographic room for study of animals and be available for use of other departments on a contractual basis.  Dr. Culp is the director of this facility, which will be one of very few in the country to use high-quality equipment specifically in an animal laboratory setting.  This is close to the Radiology Department and in the same research building as the major Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine facility with its support personnel, veterinarians, surgical suites, and animal facilities.

William C. Culp, M.D.
Dr. Culp is the principal investigator on these projects.  In the past, research interests have been focused on biliary stents and also small bowel transplantation problems.  Other interests include sailboat racing, cruising, and nautical archeology, where he spends considerable time on field trips and serving as a director of the Institute of Nautical Archeology.  Dr. Culp also serves on the Board of Directors of CIRREF (Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Research and Education Foundation), the research and education arm of the Society of Interventional Radiology, and has devoted a large amount of time and funding to these efforts.  Other interests include reviewing manuscripts for three journals and various local community activities. The UAMS Radiology faculty information page contains further information on Dr. Culp.

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