Michael A McCulloch, MD
Pediatric Cardiology
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Bio & Overview
Michael McCulloch, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics and the Medical Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension and Mechanical Circulatory Support Programs. He is also a member of the Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation team. In addition, he takes care of pediatric patients with all types of acquired and congenital heart diseases as well as children and young adults with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
A New Jersey native, Dr. McCulloch graduated from Wake Forest University, attended graduate school for physiology, and earned his medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He completed his pediatrics residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship at the University of Virginia.
Since 2017, Dr. McCulloch has been a member of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at UVA Health Children’s Hospital. Before that, he spent nine years at the Nemours Children’s Hospital Cardiac Center in Wilmington, Delaware.
Dr. McCulloch is actively involved in research regarding pulmonary hypertension, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and optimizing the pediatric heart transplant allocation process.
Dr. McCulloch is married, with two children and enjoys traveling with them whenever possible. His hobbies include live music, bourbon, and intermittently trying to fight the rapid fall out of shape.
Academic Information
- Department
- Pediatrics
- Academic Role
- Professor
- Division
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Infants (0-2)
Children (2-12)
Adolescents (12-21)
- Primary Education
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Residency
- University of Virginia School of Medicine
- Fellowships
- University of Virginia School of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital
- Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatric Cardiology)
Highlights
My name is Michael McCulloch. I'm a Pediatric Cardiologist here at the University of Virginia, Pediatric Heart Center and I am the Medical Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension and Mechanical Circulatory Support teams; and I work within the Heart Failure and Heart Transplant teams as well. I think the world of pediatric cardiology, it's fascinating. It's constantly growing and the amount of things that we can do for kids now that we couldn't do even just 10 or 15 years ago, it's unbelievable. The initial visits for sure are pretty involved. We need to kind of understand everything that's happened, so we need to understand from birth to present. All the issues that you might have had in between, any hospitalization, surgeries. UVA is ... the way that this place has been put together and organized is, in my opinion, perfect. You've got a team that consistently works together day in, day out. So, there's no information that my surgeon, my partners, my sonographers, my nurses, there's no piece of information that one person knows that another one doesn't because we feel that there's no other way to take care of somebody without having everyone be involved in the decision processes. I think that probably the favorite part of my job is when you see a kid who's been really, really sick and has been not doing well and not able to interact with their parents, or smile, or do any of the kind of things that they would typically like to be doing. Seeing that child then smile, laugh, get out of bed, walk, let parents hold them, that's far and away the best thing that you can see. Some days are very long and very difficult but when you finally get those kids smiling and getting back to their parents, that's the best thing that you can hope for.
Awards
- 2019-2020 Best Doctors in America® List
Reviews
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