Daniel McCullough, MD

Board of Trustees

About Daniel McCullough, MD

Daniel McCullough, MDDr. McCullough is a family physician with more than 25 years of experience in medical education. Dr. McCullough is board-certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine and is an Assistant Professor at UMass Chan Medical School. He practices medicine at BILH Primary Care in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Dr. McCullough previously served as Chair of the Department of Family Medicine and as Vice President of the medical staff at Beverly Hospital. He also served as the Medical Director of the hospital’s Inpatient Detoxification Unit. As the National Membership Chair and member of the National Medical Specialty Action Group for the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), he helped to bring the specialty to ABME Board Certification.

From 2012 until 2019, he served as Chair of Lahey Health System’s Physician Leadership Council, an advisory panel that made recommendations to the Lahey Board of Trustees on matters related to the organization’s physician community. From 2008 to 2024 he was the Regional Medical Director for Beverly Hospital’s Northeast Medical Practice and championed innovation and transformative primary care with an emphasis on the patient experience. Embracing innovation and transformative primary care seen through the lens of the patient experience, Dr. McCullough and Northeast Medical Practice worked with alternative payment models to improve patient care; Northeast Medical Practice was among the first practices in Massachusetts to adopt the initial Alternative Quality Contract. Dr. McCullough previously served as a trustee for the Lahey Health System. He also championed Lahey’s Patient Experience Transparency Pilot.

Dr. McCullough received his undergraduate degree from Providence College and medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and he completed his residency training at Maine Medical Center. He also holds a master of philosophy degree from the University of Glasgow.