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Senior Editor Profiles
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Tao Le, MD, MHS
Tao has been having fun with medical education for the past 15 years. As senior
editor, he led the expansion of First Aid into a global educational series. In
addition, he is the founder and editor-in-chief of the USMLERx online test bank
series as well as a co-founder of the Underground Clinical Vignettes series. As
a medical student, he was editor-in-chief of the University of California, San
Francisco Synapse, a university newspaper with a weekly circulation of 9000.
Tao earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco
in 1996 and completed his residency training in internal medicine at Yale
University and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins University in allergy and
immunology. In addition, he completed an MHS at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health. At Yale, he was a regular guest lecturer on the USMLE
review courses and an adviser to the Yale University School of Medicine
curriculum committee. He is currently chief of allergy and immunology in the
Department of Medicine at the University of Louisville.
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Seth K. Bechis, MS
Seth grew up in Concord, Mass. and attended Harvard University, earning a
Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry and chemical biology. He took two years
during medical school to complete a Masters of Science degree in biomedical
science, studying cancer biology, and is now in his third year of medical
school at the University of California, San Francisco. Seth wants to become a
practicing clinician-scientist in cardiology or potentially a surgical
subspecialty. He also has interests in medical education and biotechnology
development and hopes to combine these in his future practice. When not in
school, Seth spends his time outdoors skiing, hiking, golfing, and traveling to
faraway places.
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Editors
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Karen A. Adler, MD
Karen grew up in the small town of Bel Air, Md., until she was 18 years old,
when she moved to Providence, R.I., to attend Brown University. It was at Brown
that Karen was first exposed to the world of academic publishing when she spent
many months assisting a professor in preparing a textbook on complex cognition
for publication. Karen majored in neuroscience and then pursued graduate work
in clinical psychology in San Diego, focusing on the neurobiology of stress and
disease. She earned her medical degree at Weill Medical College of Cornell
University and is beginning a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General
Hospital.
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Jacob S. Appelbaum
Jacob grew up in Seattle, Wash., working in laboratories at the University of
Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center before moving to
Amherst College, where he majored in biology and chemistry. Following
graduation he moved to Washington, D.C., where he was a predoctoral fellow at
the National Cancer Institute. In 2004 he began the MD/PhD program at Yale
School of Medicine in the department of cell biology. He has no idea what he
will specialize in.
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Carina H.G. Baird, MD
Carina is from Riverside, Calif. She attended the University of California, Los
Angeles for her undergraduate education, where she majored in psychobiology and
minored in music history. As a student she worked as an emergency medical
technician for UCLA Emergency Medical Services. She graduated from the
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where she was a
member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. She is pursuing her residency
training in pediatrics at UCSF as well, and will be an intern in the critical
care track. Carina will likely specialize in neonatology.
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Xuemei Cai
Xuemei grew up in Tucson, Ariz. She received the Flinn Scholarship in 2001,
which led to her decision to stay instate at the University of Arizona, where
she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry and molecular
biophysics as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian studies. She is
currently in her fourth year at Harvard Medical School and is considering a
career in a surgical subspecialty or interventional radiology.
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Phillip J. Gray, Jr.
Phil graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arizona and is pursuing
his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He recently
completed a Howard Hughes Medical Research Training Fellowship with the
department of radiation oncology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
and Harvard Medical School. Phil plans to pursue a career in academics in the
field of radiation oncology.
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Gabriel J. Martinez-Diaz
Gabriel was born and raised in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He attended the College
of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned his
Bachelor of Science degree with honors in research in biomedical engineering.
Upon graduation, and after a short teaching experience through the PEOPLE
program at the University of Wisconsin, Gabriel moved to Bethesda, Md., to work
at the National Institutes of Health in the Academy Fellowship Program. During
2007-08 he completed a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship at the
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He is entering his
clinical rotations in the summer of 2008, hoping to find a specialty field
where he can work toward improving the quality of health care received by
medically underserved communities.
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Web Editors
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Ravish Amin
Ravish is a second-year medical student at the School of Osteopathic Medicine
of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Stratford, N.J. He
is an alumnus of the Rutgers Business School, where he graduated with highest
honors and received a degree in finance. Aside from his interest in medicine,
he has a passion for the field of finance and has extensive work experience
with top Wall Street firms. As a hobby he enjoys web development and computer
programming. Ravish can be reached at aminra@umdnj.edu.
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Darko Stefanovski, MA
Darko has a Masters Degree in bioengineering from the University of
Pennsylvania. Currently he is pursuing a Doctorate of Philosophy degree in
physiology and biophysics at the University of Southern California. The focus
of his research is diabetes mellitus type 2.
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