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.[1] 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.[2] He then began his residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.[2] Carson then served two years as a flight surgeon with the United States Air Force (USAF), after which he took on a urology residency and fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota.[2] Carson began his teaching career at the Duke University Medical Center, as an assistant professor. He was subsequently promoted to full professor, and left for the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, where he was later named John Sloan Rhodes and John Flint Rhodes Distinguished Professor within the Department of Urology. Carson was chief of the department between 1993 and 2010. Upon his retirement, he was granted emeritus status.[3]
His research has focussed on erectile dysfunction, penile prostheses,[3][6][7] and treatments for Peyronie's disease, where the penis curves upon erection.[8][9][10]
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.[11]
Honors and awards
In 1974, he became United States Air Force Flight Surgeon of the Year.[2] In 2000, he was awarded the Royal Society of Medicine's book prize for his textbook Erectile Dysfunction,[2][12] and in 2001 he won the Jesse H. Neal Award for editorial writing.[2]
In 2011 Carson was awarded the Distinguished Contributor Award by the American Urological Association, of which he has been an active member, and the following year received their Brantley Scott Award.[3]
Urologic Prostheses: The Complete Practical Guide to Devices, Their Implantation and Patient Follow Up. Springer Science + Business Media (2002). ISBN978-1-61737-242-1
^Wilson1, S. K., Delk II, J. R. Historical advances in penile prostheses. International Journal of Impotence Research. www.nature.com. Vol. 12, Supplement 4 (2000), pp. S101-S107.