MDplus

Team

The folks running the place.

MDplus is run by a volunteer team of physicians, residents, and medical students — most of them members first. The work is unpaid; the impact is real.

Current leadership · 2026–27

Who's steering MDplus today.

Filter by role or vertical. Click any card to read their full profile.

Founder · 2019

Where it all began.

MDplus began with a Slack workspace on August 27, 2019 and a first meetup of around 20–30 non-traditional medical students in New York City on October 2, 2019.

Sherman Leung

Sherman Leung

Co-Founder

Founded MD+ in 2019 at Mount Sinai. Stanford CS → MS in Management Science → vaccine researcher at NIH → PM at PatientPing → healthcare investor at AlleyCorp. Now an Emergency Medicine resident at Stanford and Venture Fellow at a16z bio+health.

Advisors

The people in our corner.

Former leaders and mentors who continue to advise, connect, and open doors for the community.

Sherman Leung

Sherman Leung|Founder

I sang tenor with an R&B/Hip Hop acapella group in college

Daniel Friedman

Daniel Friedman|Graduate

I can type the alphabet in under 2.5 seconds.

Jon Wang

Jon Wang|Entrepreneurship

I've eaten two Chipotle burritos in one sitting before.

Shaq Junaid

Shaq Junaid|Healthcare Consulting

I have the same nickname and birthday as Shaquille O'Neal

Katie Link

Katie Link|AI

Jun Jeon

Jun Jeon|Life Sciences

David Mui

David Mui|Curriculum

Kylie Long

Kylie Long|Growth

I'm in a slack group with Patrick Schwarzenegger.

Dhuru Patel

Dhuru Patel|Consulting

I visited 14 countries solo in 2 months.

Clara Sun

Clara Sun|Community

I love collecting matchboxes!

Michael Yao

Michael Yao|AI/Data

Gwyneth Paltrow watched me run a lab experiment (and spill a flask) in college.

Lawrence Huang

Lawrence Huang|AI/Data

I biked a 10,000 ft volcano in Hawaii and started hallucinating at altitude while singing the Moulin Rouge theme to a group of confused tourists.

Pranav Sanghvi

Pranav Sanghvi|Advisor

Past leadership

The folks who built it.

Past executive teams who shaped what MDplus is today. Many remain active members and informal advisors.

Want to help run the place?

We're always looking for active members to take on director roles.

If you're an MDplus member who wants to lead a vertical, run a program, or own a piece of the publication, say hi.

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