Sherman Leung

About Sherman Leung

Sherman Leung, MD is a practicing emergency physician in residency at Stanford where he cares for patients at Stanford, Kaiser Santa Clara, and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, the safety net hospital for the region. He also supports the investing team and a dedicated portfolio of healthcare companies as a venture fellow at a16z bio+health, where he focuses on the intersection of AI and healthcare and care delivery model innovation.

Previously as a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at New York, Sherman helped launch AlleyCorp Healthcare, a physician-led venture capital firm and venture studio where he led investments behind tech-enabled specialty care models and incubated healthcare companies focused on primary care and value-based care enablement. He also founded MD+, a 501c3 non-profit which now supports over 3000 aspiring physician-innovators and medical students across the country.

Before transitioning into medicine, Sherman was an early product manager at PatientPing where he was named to MedTech Boston’s “40 under 40 Healthcare Innovators” for his work on a national care coordination platform. Sherman graduated from Stanford with a BS in Computer Science and MS in Management Science, where he conducted machine learning research under Fei-Fei Li (PD Soros '99) and was named a Greylock X Fellow and a Kleiner Perkins Fellow.

Sherman was born in Maryland to immigrants who emigrated from Hong Kong. His father, a biochemist-turned-software engineer, and his mother, a literature major-turned-math teacher, taught Sherman the importance of interdisciplinary thinking from an early age.