Michael McCullough (entrepreneur)

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Michael McCullough is an American entrepreneur[1][2][3] and investor in healthcare and life science companies,[1][4][5] social entrepreneur,[6][7][8] and emergency room doctor.[7] He was a Rhodes Scholar.[8][9] He lives in Palo Alto, California.

Career

Entrepreneurship & Healthcare Investing

Dr. McCullough holds several concurrent positions. He is a partner at Capricorn Healthcare and Special Opportunities (CHSO).[10] He was a partner at Headwaters Capital Partners. Dr. McCullough is a co-founding angel investor and member of the Scientific/Strategic Advisory Board at Heartflow, Inc.[11] Other CHSO investments include Epic Systems and Metabiota.[12] McCullough was a founding board member at 2U Inc (NAS: TWOU),[13][14] and is a board member at the Dalai Lama Foundation.[15] Dr. McCullough serves as a consultant to venture capital funds on life sciences, impact oriented, and education focused investments at Redpoint, NanoDimension, Greylock and Venrock.[2] He is an advisor/consultant at Shmoop, Neurovigil, Declara, Zipongo, and other life science companies.[1][12] As an entrepreneur, Dr. McCullough was a founder and President of RegenMed Systems.[16][17] He was elected a venture fellow at the Kauffman Fellows Program in 2009.[5]

Social Entrepreneurship

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Dr. McCullough treating an infant with an infection in Ghana, Africa while creating KaeMe.

Dr. McCullough is co-founder/President of QuestBridge,[18] a non-profit which places 2,500 talented low-income students into 39 top colleges annually.[19][20][21][22] Prior to this he was founder and/or co-founder of the Stanford Youth Environmental Science Program (SYESP),[23][24][25] the Quest Scholars Program,[19][26][27][28] and SMYSP.[29][30] Dr. McCullough is a founder/co-founder at BeAGoodDoctor.Org,[31] S.C.O.P.E.,[32][33] the Courage Project,[31] Global Leadership Incubator (GLI),[34] and Happiness Science. He is a co-founder and board member of KaeMe.Org [35] a nonprofit organization that works to reunite children living in orphanages in Ghana, West Africa with their families.[36] Dr. McCullough was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2004.[37][6]

Medical Career, Teaching & Medical Service Work

Dr. McCullough is an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).[38] He served as an expedition physician and the emergency doctor for the Dalai Lama and entourage at the Office of Tibet.[34][5] Dr. McCullough is a founder at Dharamsala, India Clinical Internship,[39] a founder of Roatan Clinical and Public Health Internship,[40] and a founder of Nepal Clinical Internship. Dr. McCullough is a published researcher,[41][29] writer, and speaker with a current focus on the mind, professional development, compassion and leadership.[3][39][30]

Education

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Teaching Neuroanatomy at the Stanford Medical School

His medical degree is from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, and his surgical residency was at Stanford Hospital's emergency unit.[1][5] He was a Rhodes scholar and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford University, and also studied diagnostic and neuro imaging at the John Radcliffe Hospital there.[37] As an undergraduate, Dr. McCullough studied Human Biology and Neuroscience at Stanford University, where he was the first undergraduate hired to teach at the Stanford Medical School (Neuroanatomy).[9]

Early Life and Medical Challenges

Raised in rural Oregon, McCullough’s family were original Oregon settlers in the 1800s. McCullough was born 8 weeks prematurely and suffered a brain hemorrhage which was missed for nine years resulting in hydrocephalus, severe headaches, and a significant speech impediment which was corrected with brain surgery at age 10.[39][9] At age 4, McCullough began playing chess, and at 6 played against chess master Arthur Dake in a public tournament.[42] At 17, McCullough served on the Oregon Board of Education where he represented the K-12 students in Oregon and helped co-author Oregon's Action Plan For Excellence in Education, state graduation requirements and other policy.[43][44]Following surgery, McCullough subsequently retrained himself to speak through high school.[2][3][45] Following his brain surgery, speaking fluently initially also required McCullough to learn and adopt biofeedback and meditation techniques at an early age.[9][3] To overcome his stuttering, McCullough also used different accents when needed to for public speaking and stand-up comedy.[39][9]

References

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