Raised in Scranton, PA, I realized I wanted to be a doctor at age 17 on a trip to the Dominican Republic. At Boston College, that experience blossomed into an interest in malaria which led me to a year of research in India and another at Rockefeller University in NYC. All seemed steady until a summer research project in Mozambique after my first year at Stanford Medical School. There I saw that the biggest problems in health care delivery were at least as much about economics as they were about medicine. Knowing nearly nothing about economics, I detoured to get an MBA from Stanford and went on to the Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved residency at UC San Francisco.
After some years in digital health, now I spend my nights caring for infants at the Stanford neonatal intensive care unit and days using math to improve that care.
A devotee of Bayes’ theorem, I am a decidedly amateur programmer. My fascination with machine learning & natural language processing outweighs my technical skills therein by no small margin. I have played rugby since I was college freshman, enjoyed motorcycles since a grad school trip to Zambia and gardened since I was toddling around my grandparents’ backyard.
Thank you for visiting,
Michael Scahill, MD, MBA
