Tao Le, MD, MHS

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics

Chief, Section of Allergy and Immunology

Department of Medicine

University of Louisville

Sahil Mehta, MD
Resident
Department of Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Tao Le, MD, MHS

Tao has pursued his passion for medical education for the past 20 years. As senior editor of FIrst Aid for the USMLE Step 1, he has led the expansion of First Aid into a global educational seriers. In addition, Tao is the founder and editor-in-chief of USMLERx and a cofounder 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 UCSF in 1996 and completed his residency training in internal medicine at Yale University and his allergy and immunology fellowship training at Johns Hopkins University. At Yale, he was a regular guest lecturer on USMLE review and an advisor to the Yale School of Medicine curriculum committee. Tao subseqently went on to cofound Medsn, a medical e-learning company, and served as its chief medical officer. He is curently section chief of adult allergy and immunology at the University of Louisvill. He enjoys travel, movies, good food, and spending time with his family.

James A. Feinstein, MD

James is a practicing pediatrician and pediatric health services researcher. He attends at the Special Care Clinic at The Children's Hospital Colorado, where he provides care to children with complex medical issues and special healthcare needs. He is also a research fellow at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he is obtaining a graduate degree in biostatistics. His research is focused on improving the outpatient care delivered to children with complex, chronic illnesses. He attended Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and completed residency at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Outside of medicine, James writes (www.shortwhitecoat.com) and he absolutely loves to run up (and then down) various Rocky mountains.

Sahil Mehta, MD

Sahil graduated from Columbia University summa cum laude and then attended University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. After completing his transitional year residency at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, he began his residency in radiology at Harvard/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Sahil is interested in interventional oncology. Outside of work, he's a big sports fan, especially the Orlando Magic, the New York Mets, and the New York Giants. He also enjoys rock climbing and is addicted to golf, but stinks at it.

Flora Waples-Trefil, MD

Flora is a resident in the University of Chicago emergency medicine program. She began working on First Aid and USMLERx projects while she was a second-year medical student at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Over the past few years she has had the opportunity to be a part of several different projects for USMLERx Steps 1, 2, and 3 as an author, editor, and senior editor. During the generous amount of free time that emergency medicine residents enjoy, Flora runs a small construction/rehab business for distressed real estate, exposes herself to unnecessary danger by rock climbing and alpine mountaineering, works on the family ranch in Montana, and generally attempts to live up to the ER physician ideal of being a shiftless dilettante.