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CV & Publications

Curriculum Vitae - Susan M. Culican

Address:

Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
660 S. Euclid Ave. Campus Box 8096
St. Louis, MO 63110
(314) 454-2125 office
culican@vision.wustl.edu
Present Position:

Assistant Professor
Residency Program Director
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine

Education:
1986-1990

B.A. Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1990-1998

M.D.
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Ph.D. Biology and Biomedical Sciences--Neuroscience
Supervisor: Jeff W. Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D.
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1998-1999

Internship: Preliminary Medicine
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
1999-2002

Residency: Ophthalmology
Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
2003-2004

Clinical Fellowship: Pediatric Ophthalmology
St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO

Academic Positions:
2002-2003

Instructor in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Chief- Resident
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
2004-present

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
2004-present

Residency Program Director
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Honors and Awards:
1998

Max and Evelyn Grand Prize, Washington University School of Medicine
2000

Doris P. and Harry J. Wexler Award for Ophthalmic Research
2003

Fellowship, Society of Heed Fellows, Heed Ophthalmic Foundation

Professional Societies and Organizations:

  • American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS)
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)
  • Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
  • Fellow- Society of Heed Fellows

Selected Publications:

  • Culican SM, Baumrind NL, Yamamoto M, Pearlman AL. Cortical radial glia: identification in tissue culture and evidence for their transformation to astrocytes. J Neurosci 1990; 10:684-692.
  • Turney SG, Culican SM, Lichtman JW. A quantitative fluorescence-imaging technique for studying acetylcholine receptor turnover at neuromuscular junctions in living animals. J Neurosci Methods 1996; 64:199-208.
  • Culican SM, Nelson CC, Lichtman JW. Axon withdrawal during synapse elimination at the neuromuscular junction is accompanied by disassembly of the postsynaptic specialization and withdrawal of Schwann cell processes. J Neurosci 1998; 18:4953-4965.
  • Akaaboune M, Culican SM, Turney SG, Lichtman JW. Rapid and reversible effects of activity on acetylcholine receptor density at the neuromuscular junction in vivo. Science 1999; 286:503-507.
  • Culican SM, Custer PL. Repair of cicatricial ectropion in an infant with harlequin ichthyosis using engineered human skin. Am J Ophthalmol 2002; 134:442-443.
  • Yu, JT, Culican, SM and Tychsen, L. A Case of Congenital LCMV Chorioretinitis Associated with an Aicardi-like Brain Abnormality. JAAPOS. In press.

Other Publications

  • Lichtman JW, Burden SJ, Culican SM, Wong ROL. Synapse formation and elimination. In, Fundamental Neuroscience. San Diego:Academic Press, 1999, pp 547-580.
  • Culican, SM. Ophthalmology. In, The Washington Manual Geriatrics Subspecialty Consult, K. Moylan ed. Lippincott,Williams and Wilkins, 2004, pp 103-108.
  • Culican, SM, et al. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2006;ARVO E-Abstract 5380

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