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. Dr. Culicchia has spent much time recently advocating a free market healthcare delivery system in which doctors compete and patients shop for health care on the basis of both cost and quality of healthcare in a publically accessible open market place.

Dr. Culicchia is semi-retired since 1996.