Richard Merkin is the founder of Heritage Provider Network. Under his stewardship, Heritage Provider Network has become the largest, physician-owned and operated integrated delivery system in the United States with over 50 related healthcare companies. Heritage Provider Network encompasses numerous patent, venture capital, private equity, and insurance companies. Dr. Merkin serves on the Board of the California Institute of Technology and the Board of Trustees at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. He is the Co-founder of FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute. He has established the Richard Merkin Foundation for Stem Cell Research at the Broad Institute at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Richard Merkin Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute, the Richard Merkin Foundation for Neural Regeneration at UCLA, and the Merkin Family Foundation Fund for Regenerative Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at USC.