The new Arizona State University medical school has received a nine-figure gift from Dr. John Shufeldt and received preliminary accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education that will enable the school to begin recruiting its first class of students for the fall 2026 semester, according to an Oct. 22 ASU announcement.
The John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering will eventually be located at Phoenix Bioscience Core in downtown Phoenix at the new ASU Health headquarters. Classes will begin next year at the Mercado in downtown Phoenix.
Shufeldt’s donation also will support the creation of an endowed professorship for a professor of entrepreneurship in medicine, as well as a health-tech venture philanthropy fund that will be operated by the ASU Foundation. The university will identify entrepreneurs funded through the fund, who will be called Xcellerant Ventures Founders, according to the ASU announcement.
Shufeldt holds an MD, JD and MBA, an emergency medicine physician, and in 1993 founded NextCare, an urgent care company.