Dr. Stephen Mulholland, who attended LSSU from 1979 through 1983, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award. The award was established in 1968 and is the highest honor that the university bestows on graduates. The outstanding alumnus award recognizes recipients for their personal and professional accomplishments and their involvement with LSSU, highlighting the significant achievements of alumni who serve as leaders in our region, state and nations.
Mulholland was a Laker Hockey standout from 1979-1983, where he is the only NCAA Division I hockey player to lead his team in scoring all 4 seasons. Over his career at Lake State, he was the CCHA Rookie of the year, an Academic All American, on All CCHA teams and captained the team in his senior year. Mulholland finished with 205 points over his 4 years and remains one of the top all-time LSSU scoring leaders in the division one era. Off the ice, Mulholland also excelled in academics graduating with a double BSc Degree in Biology and Chemistry with a GPA of 3.97 and Magna Cum Laude gold medalist.
“I look back on my years at Lake State as truly transformative. Beyond the competitive athleticism of being a student hockey player, I formed very strong relationships with professors and members of the community that have influenced and shaped my life and career,” commented Mulholland. “I am certain any success I have has been forged in no small part by the years spent in the Soo.” Mulholland has generously supported his alma mater’s Laker Hockey Locker Room Renovation campaign, reflecting on those who mentored and inspired his journey.
After Lake State, Mulholland spend one season playing professional hockey in the Swedish Division 1 circuit, where he led the league in scoring and followed that with a stint playing for the NHL Calgary Flames farm team in Denver.
Dr. Mulholland retired from hockey and attended the prestigious University of Toronto Medical School, where he graduated the Honor Silver Medalist. Dr. Mulholland then completed University of Toronto Plastic Surgery Residency Program and followed with an advanced fellowship in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Oncology, Microvascular Reconstruction and Craniofacial trauma. Dr. Mulholland spent some years as a consultant at the Hamilton Regional Cancer Center performing complex head and neck cancer excisions and reconstructions, as well as facial trauma repair.
In 1997, Dr. Mulholland opened a private Plastic Surgery Center, SpaMedica Plastic Surgery, in Downtown Toronto. Over the next 25 years, Dr. Mulholland built an international reputation as one of the most talent and renowned cosmetic plastic surgeons in the world. Dr. Mulholland has also been an entrepreneur innovating procedures, developing patents and trademarked procedures in the minimally invasive, non-scalpel based space.
Dr. Mulholland had trademarked and patented over 10 procedures and technologies and co-founded 2 multi-billion-dollar market cap companies, both publicly traded on NASDAQ. His most recent two companies, InModeMD (INMD) is a 3-billion-dollar company that sells his co-patented technologies, the Morpheus8 and BodyTite worldwide. Dr. Mulholland sold his SpaMedica Medical spa in 2021 and retired from excisional surgery to focus his efforts on his capital equipment company and his new software venture, BoomerangFX.com, a cloud-based, AI infused practice management, marketing and e-learning portal for the non-managed care space.
Dr. Mulholland has been prolific on television co-creating the reality cosmetic surgery makeover show “Skin Deep”, as well as being the guest plastic surgeon on the national show CityLine for over 20 years and has appeared on The Today Show, The Doctors Show, Fox, NBC, CBC and ABC news. Mulholland met and married the love of his life, wife Ann Kimberly Kerr Mulholland, herself an MBA and PhD in business, who built and sold the largest private consumer financing company in Canada. The couple have 6 children, with homes in Hawaii, Las Vegas, Toronto and London. The Mulholland’s were featured in season 1 of the Real Housewives of Toronto. The couple now lives in London, where they own and operate a 1000-year-old castle and have just finished shooting the first season of a reality show of this journey “Queen of the Castle”.
NOTE: Dr. Mulholland will be giving a talk – “Grit, Growth, Mindset and Continuous Innovation” – in the Kenneth Shouldice Library on Thursday, October 18th at 6:00pm. Sure to be an interesting account from his days in the rink to becoming a plastic surgeon and beyond. Form more information, contact the Alumni Office at 906-635-2844 or email [email protected].