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Michael McCullough, MD,
M.Sc. is an emergency medicine physician at the Santa Clara
Valley Medical Center. McCullough was born in rural Oregon
where he spent much of his childhood overcoming residual side
effects from an eight-week premature twin birth and subsequent
hydrocephalus including a severe speech impediment, migraine
headaches, and other physical handicaps. Unable to speak clearly
until high school, McCullough went on to speak professionally
by age 19 and also served a term on the Oregon State Board
of Education as its student representative while still in
high school. At Stanford University, McCullough graduated
Phi Beta Kappa with distinction. For much of this time, McCullough
financed his own education working nights and vacations.
During his undergraduate
years McCullough continued his public speaking-winning several
national speaking awards, ventured briefly into stand-up comedy,
won several teaching awards, and became the first undergraduate
to teach at the Stanford School of Medicine (neuroanatomy).
He was the first undergraduate on Stanford's charter Investment
Responsibility Task Force and founded the Stanford Medical
Youth Science Program (SMYSP) with a friend and then directed
it for two years. McCullough was awarded a Rhodes scholarship
for these efforts in 1989 and successfully institutionalized
SMYSP which continues to run today.
After returning from
Oxford, McCullough created the Stanford Youth Environmental
Science Program, now the Quest Scholars Program, with Ana
Rowena Mallari. To the project, he brought the strengths and
lessons learned from his creation of SMYSP. McCullough co-founded
Quest during medical school at UCSF, balancing these two roles
while garnering clincal honors in fourteen rotations. Now
an ER physician, McCullough continues to work with Quest as
co-founder and as the president of QuestBridge. McCullough
also serves on Quest's Board of Directors.
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