Michael McCullough, MD is an American
entrepreneur
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[3] and investor in healthcare and life science companies,
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social entrepreneur ,
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[8] and
emergency room doctor.
[7] He was a
Rhodes Scholar .
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[9] He lives in
Palo Alto ,
California .
Career
Entrepreneurship & Healthcare Investing
Dr. McCullough holds several concurrent investing and entrepreneurial positions. He is a co-founder at
Capricorn Healthcare and Special Opportunities (CHSO),
[10] and was a co-founder and Partner at
Headwaters Capital Partners.
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[12] Dr. McCullough is best known as an investor for his triple bottom line success in impact investing and global impact.
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[3] Dr. McCullough is a co-founding angel investor and member of the Scientific/Strategic Advisory Board at
Heartflow , Inc.
[11] Dr. McCullough was a founding board member at
2U Inc (NAS: TWOU),
[15]
[16] and was/is a board member/observer at the
Dalai Lama Foundation ,
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Metabiota ,
[18] Noodle,
KaeMe.Org ,
HeartFlow ,
QuestBridge ,
The Global Leaderhip Incubator (GLI),
Zipongo , and
Apnicure .
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[16] Dr. McCullough serves as a consultant to
venture capital funds on life sciences,
impact oriented, and education focused investments at
Greylock ,
Redpoint ,
NanoDimension , and
Venrock .
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[19] He is an advisor/consultant at Shmoop,
Declara ,
Zipongo , and other life science companies.
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[18] As an entrepreneur, Dr. McCullough was a founder and President of
RegenMed Systems.
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[21] He is most recently the Founder of the
BrainMind Summit and
BrainMind .
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[23] Dr. McCullough was elected a venture fellow at the
Kauffman Fellows Program in 2009 and a
Kauffman Fellows mentor in 2015.
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Social Entrepreneurship
Dr. McCullough speaking at Yale during a QuestBridge Leadership Conference for talented low-income high school students As a social entrepreneur, Dr. McCullough is co-founder/President of
QuestBridge ,
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[25] a revenue-driven and self-sustaining not-for-profit
NGO which places 2,500 talented low-income students into 39 top colleges annually (e.g.
Stanford ,
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Yale ,
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MIT ,
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Amherst ,
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Princeton ,
[30] and
Caltech ) on >$1.2 billion in aid annually.
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[35] As a self-sustaining non-profit, QuestBridge has reached scale with help of entrepreneurs and thinkers such as
Reid Hoffman,
Juan Enriquez ,
Tim Ferriss , and Senator
Bill Bradley who serve on the
QuestBridge board and Advisory Boards.
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Prior to QuestBridge, McCullough was founder and/or co-founder of the Stanford Youth Environmental Science Program (SYESP),
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[39] the Quest Scholars Program,
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[42] and SMYSP.
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[44] Dr. McCullough is a founder/co-founder at
BeAGoodDoctor.Org ,
[45] S.C.O.P.E.,
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[47] the Courage Project,
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Global Leadership Incubator (GLI),
[48] and Happiness Science. He is a co-founder and board member of
KaeMe.Org
[49] a nonprofit organization that works to reunite children living in orphanages in
Ghana ,
West Africa with their families.
[50] Dr. McCullough was elected an
Ashoka Fellow in 2004 and was named a top American
social entrepreneur in 2006 before adding for-profit entrepreneurship and investing.
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Medical Career, Teaching & Medical Service Work
Dr. McCullough treating an infant with an infection in Ghana, Africa while creating KaeMe.
Dr. McCullough is an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at the
University of California, San Francisco (
UCSF ) with a special emphasis on teaching.
[52] He served as an expedition physician and the emergency doctor for the
Dalai Lama and entourage at the Office of Tibet.
[5]
[48] Dr. McCullough is a founder at
Dharamsala , India Clinical Internship,
[53] a founder of Roatan Clinical and Public Health Internship,
[54] and a founder of
Nepal Clinical Internship. Dr. McCullough is a published researcher,
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[55] writer, and speaker
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[58] with a current focus on the mind, impact investing in the
BrainMind space, and
compassion .
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Education and Obstacles
Teaching Neuroanatomy at the Stanford Medical School
Dr. McCullough's medical degree is from the
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, where he was the first medical student awarded the
UCSF Chancellor's and
Burbridge awards for public service.
[59] Dr. McCullough's
surgical residency was at
Stanford Hospital 's emergency unit, when he created
BeAGoodDoctor.Org
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[5] Prior to medical school, McCullough 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.
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[60] 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] McCullough paid his way through college a term at a time, and was forced to drop out repeatedly to earn money to return to Stanford, where he graduated in 3 years. During these academic terms off at Stanford, Dr. McCullough was befriended by
David Packard , whose
Packard Foundation subsequently supported his early social entrepreneurship and social impact orientation.
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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.
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[53] At age 4, McCullough began playing
chess , and at 6 played against chess master
Arthur Dake in a public tournament.
[61] 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.
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[63] Following surgery, McCullough subsequently retrained himself to speak through high school.
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[64] Following his brain surgery, speaking fluently initially also required McCullough to learn and adopt
biofeedback and several
meditation techniques at an early age.
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[9] To overcome his
stuttering , McCullough also used different accents when needed to for public speaking, teaching, and
stand-up comedy , which he used to help pay his way through college and medical school.
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[53] In an interview and book by
Tim Ferriss , Dr. McCullough is noted for occasionally creatively saving lives in the emergency room, airplanes, roadside accidents, and remote overseas expeditions "off algorithm," and he attributes an important component of life growth to embracing challenging fears.
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