Sherman Leung
Emergency Physician @Stanford | Venture @ a16z bio+health
San Francisco Bay Area
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Education
Master of Science - MS
Bachelor of Science - BS
Science, Mathematics & Computer Science Magnet Program Diploma
Work Experience
Resident Physician
2023
Emergency medicine resident physician serving patients at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Kaiser Santa Clara, and Stanford Hospital.
Venture Fellow
2022
Supporting investments alongside the a16z bio+health deal team Proud cheerleader behind Fortuna Health and 4 unannounced investments in healthcare delivery
2020
Founder
2020
Launched MD+ as a 501c3 non-profit which supports 2000+ aspiring physician-innovators and medical students across the US. We empower the next generation of physician-innovators who will improve healthcare delivery through the intersection of technology, business, health policy and life sciences. Served as executive board chair and co-chair through 2022 before my current role happily supporting the 30+ executive team as an advisor.
2019 - 2022
Healthcare Investor
2019 - 2022
Joined as first hire in launching a physician-led $100M healthcare fund focused on incubating and investing in early-stage healthcare ventures. Led investment theses focused on tech-enabled specialty care models (Ansible Health, Vori Health) and VBC enablement (Pearl Health) Helped launch and incubate healthcare companies (Reside Health - primary care; Capable Health - Digital Health APIs; Pearl Health - ACO Reach)
2018 - 2019
Enterprise Tech Investor
2018 - 2019
Sourced seed investments in Ikigai Labs (robotic process automation, co-investors with 8VC, Foundation Capital) and Macro.io (acq by mmhmm, Co-investors with Firstmark and GC) Co-led 10 pre-seed investments through our inaugural UFirst summer Accelerator
2017 - 2018
Product Manager
2017 - 2018
Launched the Stories product and led hospital-facing strategy for care coordination and population health products Backed by GV and Andreesen Horowitz and acquired by Appriss Health (now Bamboo Health) for $500M in March 2021
2016 - 2016
Product Manager
2016 - 2016
First product hire under Head of Product at a startup in the medication adherence space backed by KPCB, Floodgate, First Round, and Express Scripts - launched medication search feature and social gamification around healthy habits. Also supported strategic partnerships team exploring product integration with Express Scripts. Acquired by TrialCard in 2019
2014 - 2016
Lecturer In Computer Science
2014 - 2016
Created and co-taught CS96SI (iOS Development for Mobile Health) and CS41 (The Python Programming Course). Course assistant for CS106A/B (Introductory Programming), CS377U (Understanding Users), CS193C (Client-side Internet Technologies), CS194H (User Experiences Design), CS42 (Contemporary Javascript), and a head course assistant for CS147 (Intro to Human-Computer Interaction). Supported over 1000 students over 2 years and 7 courses. https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/instructor/skleung
Computer Vision + Human-Computer Interaction Researcher
2014 - 2015
VisualGenome (visualgenome.org) under Dr. Fei-Fei Li and Michael Bernstein
2016 - 2016
KPCB Fellow
2016 - 2016
2015 - 2015
Mobile Developer
2015 - 2015
Founding engineer on the mobile team that launched the Android Khan Academy experience