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Michael McCullough is an American entrepreneur  and investor in healthcare and life science companies, social entrepreneur,   and emergency room doctor. He was a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

Career
Dr. McCullough holds several concurrent positions. He is a partner at Capricorn Healthcare and Special Opportunities. He is a board member of the Dalai Lama Foundation. He is founder/president of QuestBridge. He is a partner at Headwaters Capital Partners. He is a member of the Scientific/Strategic Advisory Board at Heartflow, Inc. He is an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is a co-founder and board member of KaeMe.Org a nonprofit organization that works to reunite children living in orphanages in Ghana, West Africa with their families.

McCullough was a founding board member at 2U, co-founder and president at RegenMed Systems,  founder at BeAGoodDoctor.Org, a fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, and founder of the Courage Project. He served as the emergency doctor for the Dalai Lama and entourage at the Office of Tibet. He is a founder at Dharamsala, India Clinical Internship, member of the medical devices committee at Life Science Angels, advisor/consultant at Shmoop, Neurovigil, Declara, Zipongo, Vocera and other life science companies.

He serves as a consultant to venture capital funds on life sciences and education investments at NanoDimension and Venrock. He was a founder of S.C.O.P.E., founder of Roatan Clinical and Public Health Internship, fellow at Ashoka, founder of Nepal Clinical Internship, co-founder of the Stanford Youth Environmental Science Program (SYESP),  co-founder of Quest Scholars Program,  and Co-Founder of SMYSP.

Education
His medical degree is from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, and his medical residency was at Stanford Hospital's emergency unit. He was a Rhodes scholar at Balliol College, Oxford University, and also studied at the John Radcliffe Hospital there. His undergraduate degree is from Stanford University.

Early Life and Medical Challenges
Raised in rural Oregon, McCullough’s family were original Oregon settlers in the 1800’s. 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. McCullough subsequently retrained himself to speak through high school. Following his brain surgery, speaking fluently initially also required McCullough to learn and adopt biofeedback and meditation techniques at an early age. To overcome his stuttering, McCullough also used different accents when needed to for public speaking and stand-up comedy.