Stay hungry.
Stay humble.
Dr. John Shufeldt is an emergency medicine physician and healthcare entrepreneur with more than three decades of experience building companies, training physicians, and serving communities. In October 2025, he funded the John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering at Arizona State University — designed to train the next generation of innovative physicians in partnership with HonorHealth.
Drawing on his experience in the ER, John pioneered the concept of urgent care after witnessing the mounting strain on emergency rooms, founding NextCare, Inc. and scaling it from a single clinic to 60 locations across six states and nearly $100 million in revenue. He went on to launch MeMD in 2010, connecting more than 500 medical professionals with patients online before Walmart acquired the company in 2021.
He founded Tribal Health in 2015, which now employs more than 450 providers across 53 Native American healthcare facilities, and has partnered with VivaMed BioPharma, a multinational drug development company, since 2025.
John currently leads Xcellerant Ventures, a health-tech venture capital firm investing in technologies that improve the quality, efficiency, access, and cost of care. Driven by a longstanding commitment to equity, Xcellerant launched The Jetstream Venture Fund in 2025 — a platform built for working professionals seeking access to venture-backed companies without the barriers that have long kept everyday investors on the sidelines.
A TEDx speaker and lecturer at ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, John has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and authored several books, including Entrepreneur Rx: The Physician's Guide to Starting a Business (Forbes Books, 2021).
He holds an MD, JD, and MBA, with certifications in AI from MIT and Entrepreneurship & Innovation from Harvard. He's also a pilot — which explains some of the aviation shelf in the library.
Despite the wins, John is the first to acknowledge the setbacks along the way. It's the perspective behind the mantra he signs every email with: Stay Hungry, Stay Humble.