Dr. Adeleke Adesina, DO,FAAEM
Founder He is a founder and CEO of SmashUSMLE Reviews with a passion for medical education. He has taught USMLE board prep for over 10 years and has helped thousands of medical students excel on the USMLE/COMLEX exam. He has taken USMLE Step 1, Step CK, COMLEX Level I, 2, 2PE, 3 and scored highly on all board exams. He is a Board certified emergency medicine attending physician.
Olufunmilayo Adesina, PharmD, BCPS Chief Operating Officer Dr. Olunfunmilayo graduated with University of Montana, School of Pharmacist in 2007. She has extensive experience is a clinical pharmacist and passionate about medical education. She completed her Board of Clinical Specialty certification (BCPS) in 2019. She is the Chief Operating Officer at ftplecures and Director of operations and management.
Jordan Kapper, MD
Advisor & Physician Educator Dr. Kapper, ‘Kap’, is a graduate from University of Florida.He received his MD from University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. He has taught USMLE Step 1 and USMLE Step 2 CK/CS review since medical school. Dr. Kapper has a passion for teaching USMLE board review to help students succeed and score higher on the USMLE exam. He is a prior one-on-one instructor for USMLE Step 2 CS and a current online course educator for SmashUSMLE. Dr. Kapper is the CEO of Carenade, an Bethlehem home health aide online company that allows customers and families to shop, compare and book home healthcare through local agencies. He is currently an emergency medicine attending at St. Luke’s University Hospital, PA.
Gage Stuntz, MD
Faculty Gage is a graduate of the University of Queensland/Ochsner Clinical School program. He teaches USMLE Step 1 and 2CK course at Smashusmle reviews. He is interested in Emergency Medicine. Gage has been teaching and mentoring first and second year students who are still in Australia. In the future, Gage plans to teach and work in emergency medicine internationally.
Nisha Cooch, PhD
Clinical Content Contributor She completed her postdoctoral program in Neuroscience from the University of Medicine, Maryland. She has experience in writing and editing of manuscripts, grant proposals, abstracts, literature reviews, research design & methodology, data interpretation, hypothesis generation.She is the founder of Bioinnovation consulting firm.
Areo Saffarzadeh, MD, MSc Areo Saffarzadeh is a cardiothoracic surgery surgery resident at Yale -New Haven Hospital. He graduated from University of California-Irvine. Areo was graduated top graduating senior at UCSB and spent two years as a fulltime physics instructor. Areo scored in top 1% percentile on the USMLE Step 1 exam and during his board studying he saw the need to improve medical education. He completed his master’s degree in biomedical and translational science. He is a faculty instructor at pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics videos in Pharmacology.
Dr. Jing Lu, MD, PhD
Chief Question Bank Editor Dr. Jing Lu works as a professional medical writer and editor in the clinical medicine and biological science field. Previously she worked as a Senior Scientist for several years at Roche-a large pharmaceutical company-after she completed her postdoctoral training at University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lu graduated with an MD from China Medical University and a PhD from Temple University School of Medicine. She has been the first author or co-author of several high quality publications and a reviewer and editor for uptodate.com, Bio-marker Insights, Accdon and First Aid for USMLE before she joined SmashUSMLE.
Adriano Bellotti, MD, PhD Candidate
Faculty Adriano is a medical student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a faculty instructor at SmashUSMLE review and serves as a Step 1 board prep adviser. He is currently working through a PhD in engineering and computational neuroscience between the National Institutes of Health and University of Cambridge as a Gates scholar
Yale Gong, MD
Physician Educator & Author
Dr. Gong is the author of the top rated review book, Yale-G First Aid: Crush USMLE Step 2CK and Step 3. He is an active partner and contributing author to SmashUSMLE review. His book is our official review book for Step 2CK and Step 3 test preparation. Dr. Gong was formerly an Assistant Professor in Neurology at USUHS in MD and now a senior medical advisor of the government. Buy the latest edition on Amazon:
Fadi, Al-Sadi MD
Clinical Content Contributor Fadi is a graduate from The University of Texas Health in San Antonio, The Long School of Medicine. In addition to clinical practice, Fadi has a passion for academic medicine and healthcare equality. He has instructed many pre-med and medical students in various topics in preparation for the MCAT and the USMLE, respectively. Fadi scored in the top percentile on the USMLE. Fadi also enjoys biomedical research, and has been involved in several basic science and clinical research projects. Fadi is resident at the Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, internal medicine residency, and he aspires to become a clinician, an educator, and a researcher.
Micheal Wong, MD
Faculty Michael is a medical graduate from the University of Queensland-Ochsner. He is an experienced USMLE STEP 1 tutor and creator of LYMed, one of the largest video courses for STEP1. He is passionate about teaching and ensuring students have the tools to achieve high scores as well as become great doctors. He is an orthopaedic surgery resident.
Dyci Sfregola
Director of Marketing Dyci has over 10 years of experience in communications, experiential marketing, and brand management, and sales, both nationally and internationally. She graduated with a Bsc. In industrial Engineering, BA in Spanish from University of Georgia.
Ethan Solms
Marketing Representative Ethan is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Parkside with a degree in Economics and Psychology. He has years of experience in brand promotion, experiential marketing, and management. He loves to travel, and has studied business internationally. Ethan is currently focused on expanding his marketing background and enjoys meeting people from all over the world.
Chirag Navadia, MD
Clinical content contributor Dr. Navadia, is the founder and administrator of Medrx22.com. He is graduated from “Tver State Medical Academy” Tver, Russia with the degree of “Doctor with Specialization in General Medicine” and currently lives in Bartlett, IL. Dr. Navadia is the author of 3 top rated books – “ECG Short Rapid Review”, “Fundamentals of Cardiology” & “Hypertension: The Silent Killer”. He is interested in pursuing his residency in Internal Medicine. He loves to interact with people, spend time with his family, traveling, soccer & a big fan of Nelson Mandela and Steve Jobs.”
Abhas Gupta MD Dr. Gupta completed his graduate medical education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine where he also completed the Ph.D progam. He graduated from Brown University with Honors and a B.Sc. with Honors in Computational Biology. He helped contribute to smashusmle through his wikitest prep USMLE questions. He is currently a Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures where he focuses on analytics-driven companies.
Jennifer Fowler MD,
Clinical Content Contributor Dr Fowler graduated from degree University of Tennessee Health Science Center college of medicine. She worked at St. Jude Children’s Research hospital performing cancer research; she has written and edited scientific manuscripts, and written grant proposals. In addition to basic bench research, She has worked in clinical trials at Washington University which were funded by the NCI (National Cancer Institute). Dr Fowler has extensive experience in medical and scientific research.
Nino Shiukashvili PhD
Clinical Content Contributor
Clinical professor of anatomy and physiology. She worked for GM pharmaceuticals, she made SOP for Clinical Researches; prepared documentation for Informed Consent and other documentation needed for the research
Tomas Mesar, MD
Question bank Contributor Dr Mesar is graduate of University of Texas Medical school, Houston. He completed his research fellowship in Trauma Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, at Harvard clinical science center. He score 270 on the USMLE Step 1. He is currently a general surgery resident.
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Abhas Gupta MD Dr. Gupta completed his graduate medical education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine where he also completed the Ph.D progam. He graduated from Brown University with Honors and a B.Sc. with Honors in Computational Biology. He helped contribute to smashusmle through his wikitest prep USMLE questions. He is currently a Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures where he focuses on analytics-driven companies.
Dr. Adeleke Adesina, DO,FAAEM
Olufunmilayo Adesina, PharmD, BCPS
Jordan Kapper, MD
Gage Stuntz, MD
Nisha Cooch, PhD
Areo Saffarzadeh, MD, MSc
Dr. Jing Lu, MD, PhD
Adriano Bellotti, MD, PhD Candidate
Yale Gong, MD
Fadi, Al-Sadi MD
Micheal Wong, MD
Dyci Sfregola
Ethan Solms
Chirag Navadia, MD
Abhas Gupta MD