She provides neurological care at Memorial Hermann Hospital, which has a state-of-the-art stroke center and is co-director of the Mischer Neuroscience Institute.
She relocated to UConn Health in 2004 and progressed to professor of neurology and neuroscience and director of stroke research at Hartford Hospital.
[4] In 2015, McCullough moved to UT Health and later became the Prof. Roy M. & Phyllis Gough Huffington Distinguished Chair of Neurology.
Because women tend to do worse than men in terms of survival and disability, she is studying the role that hormones play in stroke risk and recovery.
[10] McCullough's work was instrumental in the development of the National Institutes of Health's requirement to include female animals in basic and translational studies.