The Full Story

I became the longevity doctor I wished my family had.

Stanford physician. CEO. Founder. Daughter who lost family members to diseases we can now prevent. This is the story of why — and what comes next.

Stanford MDAspen FellowCEO, CareCore

Hillary Lin, MD

Board-certified internist · Co-Founder & CEO, CareCore

Mission

“Longevity medicine is at an inflection point. The science is ready. The tools exist. What's missing is accessible infrastructure — and someone willing to build it.”

— Hillary Lin, MD

From Taiwan

I was born in Taipei and raised by my grandparents in southern Taiwan until I was five, when I moved to Long Island with my mom. She raised me on her own, and I think that's where I got my drive — I just wanted to do everything. Violin, Science Olympiad, golf, tennis, every club and activity I could find.

I spent 11 years at Stanford. Biology undergrad, medical school, internal medicine residency — plus every hackathon, workshop, and entrepreneurship program I could squeeze in. I matched into a hematology-oncology fellowship at Columbia. Cancer ran deep on my mom's side — six relatives, many of whom died from it — and I wanted to do something about it.

On Stage

But I left the fellowship to build startups.

Founder & CEO

I wanted to reach millions of people, not one patient at a time. My early ventures taught me how to move fast. Then came Curio — my first VC-backed company, built during COVID, which grew into a psychedelic-assisted therapy platform across five states. We helped people through some of the hardest moments of their lives.

So why longevity?

While I was working on my startup, my dad had a massive heart attack back in Taiwan. He was resuscitated and spent over a month in a medical coma. While he was unconscious, his father passed away. That same year, my aunt died of an aortic dissection. My dad eventually got a heart transplant in 2025 — he's recovering, thankfully.

I'd spent my whole career thinking about cancer. Heart disease wasn't even on my radar. Then I got a full checkup and my ApoB — one of the strongest predictors of cardiovascular risk — came back at 128. I was a healthy woman in my mid-thirties. If a Stanford-trained physician didn't know her own risk, what chance does everyone else have?

That changed everything. I started The Longevity Show and The Longevity Letter to make the science accessible. I built a concierge longevity practice. I started speaking at conferences alongside researchers I'd only ever read about. And in 2025, I founded CareCore — an AI-powered platform that brings clinical-grade longevity medicine to clinicians and creators at scale.

There's still so much to build.

Thought Leader

Years at Stanford

Companies Founded

50+

Speaking Engagements

100K+

Audience Reach

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I became a physician to help people. I became a founder to help everyone.

— Hillary Lin, MD

The Journey

From Taipei to the frontier

Born

Taipei, Taiwan

Raised by grandparents in Jiayi. Moved to Long Island at age 5 with her mom.

2005

Stanford University

Biology & Human Biology. Eleven years at Stanford total — the record setter's record.

2009

Stanford School of Medicine

MD — bioinnovation focus. Every hackathon, workshop, and GSB entrepreneurship program she could find.

2013

Stanford Internal Medicine Residency

Board-certified internist. Trained to treat disease — increasingly convinced medicine needed to prevent it.

2016

Columbia University Heme/Onc Fellowship

Matched into hematology-oncology. Then walked away to build — because scale beats one patient at a time.

2019

Founded Curio

VC-backed psychedelic-assisted therapy platform across 5 states. Helping people through the hardest moments of their lives.

2023

The Wake-Up Call

Dad's heart attack. Family losses. Her own ApoB discovery at 128. Everything changed. "If a Stanford physician didn't know her own risk, what chance does everyone else have?"

2024