Culley C. Carson III

Culley Clyde Carson III (born 1945) is an American retired urologist who specializes in Peyronie's disease, penile implants and erectile dysfunction. After serving two years as a flight surgeon with the United States Air Force, he took on a urology residency at the Mayo Clinic and then taught at the Duke University Medical Center as an assistant professor, subsequently gaining full professorship.

He was later named John Sloan Rhodes and John Flint Rhodes Distinguished Professor within the Department of Urology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Upon his retirement, he was granted emeritus status.

Education and career

Culley Clyde Carson III was born in February 1945 in Westerly, Rhode Island. After graduating from Trinity College in Connecticut, he studied at the George Washington University School of Medicine, where he received the Calvin Klopp Award for outstanding research.

He has authored over 300 peer-reviewed articles and edited more than eight textbooks. Carson has been chief editor of Contemporary Urology and is an associate editor of Trends in Urology and Men's Health.

His research has focussed on erectile dysfunction, penile prostheses, and treatments for Peyronie's disease, where the penis curves upon erection.

In the third edition of his textbook Men's Health, ten years after the first edition. when he and his colleagues questioned why men die on average five years earlier than women, they attempt to address the gender gap and provide practical advice to general physicians and specialists.

Honors and awards In 1974, he became United States Air Force Flight Surgeon of the Year. and in 2001 he won the Jesse H. Neal Award for editorial writing. In 2014, he received their Lifetime Achievement Award and in the same year, he was awarded the St Paul's Medal from the Council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He has also held presidencies of the Society of University Urologists and the American Society for Men's Health.

Selected publications Books Endourology. Churchill Livingstone (1985). . With N. Reed Dunnick Textbook of Erectile Dysfunction. Taylor & Francis (1999). With Irwin Goldstein and Roger S. Kirby Urologic Prostheses: The Complete Practical Guide to Devices, Their Implantation and Patient Follow Up. Springer Science + Business Media (2002). Key Clinical Trials in Erectile Dysfunction. Springer (2007). . Management of Erectile Dysfunction in Clinical Practice. Springer (2007). Men's Health. Routledge, London (2009). (3rd Edition). . Co-edited with Roger Kirby, Michael Kirby and Adrian White

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