Dr. Carl F. Culicchia founded the Culicchia Neurological Clinic in 1961.

He is a board certified neurosurgeon who graduated from Tulane School of Medicine and completed his postgraduate training in neurological surgery at Baylor University College of Medicine.

Early on, the clinic included both neurosurgeons and medical neurologists. It was the primary source of neurosurgical care for about 250,000 people in a New Orleans suburb called the "West Bank." In this community, he established a hospital based electroencephalographic laboratory in the 60's. The laboratory performed telephonically transmitted EEG, serving many rural hospitals in Southeast Louisiana.

He was also instrumental in establishing two hospitals and the first MRI laboratory on the West Bank. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Tulane University School of Medicine.

Dr. Culicchia is semi-retired since 1996.