Double duty
When Collin Stultz was 4 years old, his Jamaican parents moved their family to Brooklyn, N.Y., in search of a better life. The Stultzes wanted their children to achieve the American dream — which, to them, meant becoming a doctor or lawyer. Stultz’s academic strength was mathematics: He won numerous awards for his talent, each of which his mother proudly saved. “My mother to this day has a folder that she keeps with any award that I won. If you went to her today, she’d take it out and dust it off and show it to you,” says Stultz, 44, now an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and an associate professor in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Stultz is also a cardiologist who has appointments at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Hospital. Collin Stultz...