Michael Hole
Executive Director, The Impact Factory Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics Courtesy Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
Michael Hole is a physician, professor, and military officer at UT Austin, where he leads the Impact Factory, a hub for entrepreneurship and community service. He is the incoming Executive Vice President and Provost at Butler University, his alma mater.
Michael served as Senior Advisor for Rural America in the Biden White House, contributing to a historic drop in U.S. overdose deaths in 2024.
A board-certified pediatrician, Michael cares for incarcerated youth after years serving homeless families. He teaches business and public policy and has 70+ publications on health and economic development.
Michael is a captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, deployable to build and operate trauma-ready hospitals during war and disaster. He is a Council on Foreign Relations term member.
The 2023 Austinite of the Year and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Michael founded nine organizations. Examples include StreetCred, a tax service for low-income families; Good Apple, a direct-to-door grocery fighting hunger; and Main Street Relief, a support system for small businesses. He also served CVS Health’s advisory board, chaired a nonprofit that eliminates medical debt, and co-led a venture capital and real estate investment firm.
In 2019, Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush named Michael a Presidential Leadership Scholar. In 2023, President Biden appointed him a White House Fellow. Michael was a Spanish interpreter, case manager for domestic violence survivors, and campaign director that funded a Ugandan school and a Haitian orphanage for children with disabilities.
Michael is a first-generation college graduate from rural Indiana. A public-school valedictorian, he studied at Butler University, where he now serves as a trustee. Michael earned MD and MBA degrees from Stanford before completing residency at Harvard.
Executive Director, The Impact Factory Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics Courtesy Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
Michael Hole is a physician, professor, and military officer at UT Austin, where he leads the Impact Factory, a hub for entrepreneurship and community service. He is the incoming Executive Vice President and Provost at Butler University, his alma mater.
Michael served as Senior Advisor for Rural America in the Biden White House, contributing to a historic drop in U.S. overdose deaths in 2024.
A board-certified pediatrician, Michael cares for incarcerated youth after years serving homeless families. He teaches business and public policy and has 70+ publications on health and economic development.
Michael is a captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, deployable to build and operate trauma-ready hospitals during war and disaster. He is a Council on Foreign Relations term member.
The 2023 Austinite of the Year and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Michael founded nine organizations. Examples include StreetCred, a tax service for low-income families; Good Apple, a direct-to-door grocery fighting hunger; and Main Street Relief, a support system for small businesses. He also served CVS Health’s advisory board, chaired a nonprofit that eliminates medical debt, and co-led a venture capital and real estate investment firm.
In 2019, Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush named Michael a Presidential Leadership Scholar. In 2023, President Biden appointed him a White House Fellow. Michael was a Spanish interpreter, case manager for domestic violence survivors, and campaign director that funded a Ugandan school and a Haitian orphanage for children with disabilities.
Michael is a first-generation college graduate from rural Indiana. A public-school valedictorian, he studied at Butler University, where he now serves as a trustee. Michael earned MD and MBA degrees from Stanford before completing residency at Harvard.
