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Question Writers

All questions at USMLE Consult are written in USMLETM style and undergo a rigorous
review process before being accepted for our question banks.

Jeffrey K Actor, PhD
Associate Professor, Medical Immunology
Course Director,
Department of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine,
University of Texas-Houston Medical
School,
Houston, TX, USA


Linda R Adkison, PhD
Professor of Genetics and Professor of
Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Mercer University School of Medicine,
Macon, GA, USA

Max Bayard, MD
Associate Professor and Program Director,
Department of Family Medicine East,
Tennessee State University James H
Quillen College of Medicine,
Johnson City, TN, USA
Nitin Bhanot, MD
Infectious Diseases Fellow,
Department of Medicine,
Maimonides Medical Center,
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Shivayogi Bhusnurmath, MD, FRCPath
Chair, Pathology,
Associate Dean, Basic and Allied Health
Sciences,
St George's University School of Medicine,
Grenada, West Indies
Richard H Bost, PhD, ABPP, BCIAC
Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences,
Oklahoma State University College of
Osteopathic Medicine,
Tulsa, OK, USA
Navtej S Brar, DO
Resident Physician,
Department of Medicine,
Lenox Hill Hospital,
New York, NY, USA
George M. Brenner,PhD
Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology,
Oklahoma State University,
Tulsa, OK, USA
Dirk Burkhardt, MD, MSc, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience,
Department of Physiology and
Neuroscience,
St George's University School of Medicine,
Grenada, West Indies
Ilseung Cho, MD
Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology,
New York University Medical Center,
New York, NY, USA
Anthony F Chu, MD
Cardiology Consultant,
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Linda S. Costanzo, PhD
Professor of Physiology,
Virginia Commonwealth University School of
Medicine,
Richmond, VA, USA
Rohit Divekar, MD
Graduate Research Assistant,
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology,
University of Missouri - Columbia,
Columbia, MO, USA
Rebecca L. Cox, PhD
Medical Microbiology Course Director,
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,
University of Texas Health Science Center,
Houston, TX, USA
Timothy M Farrell, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery,
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
James L Fishback, MD
Director of Basic Science Curriculum,
Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine,
University of Kansas School of Medicine,
Kansas City, KS, USA
Matthew Fitz, MD
Assistant Professor,
Loyola University Medical Center,
Maywood, IL, USA
John Fletcher, MD
Private Consultant,
Clayton, MO, USA
Tracy Foose, MD
Postdoctoral Residency Fellow - Psychiatry,
Columbia University,
New York, NY, USA;
and
Physician,
New York Presbyterian Healthcare Medical Centers,
New York, NY, USA
Matthew F Fox, MD
Resident,
University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Corey S. Frucht, MS
3rd Year Student,
Yale University,
New Haven, CT, USA
Rondi Gelbard,
4th Year Student,
UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School/Cooper University Hospital,
Camden, NJ, USA
Edward F Goljan, MD
Professor and Chairman of Pathology,
Oklahoma State University College of
Osteopathic Medicine,
Tulsa, OK, USA
Timothy Horita, MD
Program Director, Family Medicine
Residency Program,
Kaiser Permanente,
Woodland Hills, CA, USA;
and
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Department of Family Medicine,
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA,
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Nabhan K. Islam, MD, BMSc
Brampton, ON, Canada
Aurel Iuga, MD
Research Fellow,
Department of Dermatology,
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Charlestown, MA, USA
Jon Kibble, PhD
Associate Professor of Physiology,
Memorial University of Newfoundland,
Faculty of Medicine,
Health Sciences Centre,
St John's, NL, Canada
Kevin Kitagawa, MD
Resident Physician, Pathology,
University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine,
Honolulu, HI, USA
Kate Lally, MD
Internal Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Joshua E Lane, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Departments of Medicine (Dermatology) and
Surgery,
Mercer University School of Medicine,
Macon, GA, USA;
and
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Department of Dermatology,
Emory University School of Medicine,
Atlanta, GA, USA;
and
Clinical Instructor,
Division of Dermatology, Department of
Medicine,
The Medical College of Georgia,
Augusta, GA, USA
Amy B Levine, MD
Associate Professor,
Director, 3rd Year Clerkship in Obstetrics
and Gynecology,
Drexel University College of Medicine,
Philadelphia, PA, USA
David P Levy, BS
Medical Student,
University of Nebraska Medical Center,
Omaha, NE, USA
N Anthony Moore, PhD
Professor of Anatomy,
University of Mississippi Medical Center,
Jackson, MS, USA
Shannon B Moss, PhD
Faculty, Director of Behavioral Medicine,
Baylor Family Medicine Residency at
Garland,
Garland, TX, USA
Mayur K Movalia, MD
Hematopathology Fellow,
Hartford Hospital,
Hartford, CT, USA
Thomas Myers, MD
Resident,
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,
University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Rajasree J Nair, MD
Faculty, Director of Curriculum,
Baylor Family Medicine Residency at
Garland,
Garland, TX, USA
Jatinder Narang, MD
3rd Year Student,
St. George’s University School of Medicine,
Grenada, West Indies
Michael Nauss, MD
Resident,
Department of Emergency Medicine,
University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, OH, USA
James M Norton, PhD
Professor of Physiology, Department of
Physiology,
University of New England College of
Osteopathic Medicine,
Biddeford, NE, USA
Theodore X O'Connell, MD
Program Director, Family Medicine
Residency Program,
Kaiser Permanente,
Woodland Hills, CA, USA;
and
Clinical Instructor,
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA,
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Thomas L Pazdernik, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology, Toxicology and
Therapeutics,
Course Director, Medical Pharmacology,
University of Kansas Medical Center,
Kansas City, KS, USA
John W Pelley, PhD 
Associate Professor Cell Biology and
Biochemistry, 
Department of Cell Biology and
Biochemistry, 
Texas Tech University Health Sciences
Center, 
Lubbock, TX, USA
Michael H Pollak, PhD
Professor of Behavioral Sciences,
Oklahoma State University Center for Health
Sciences,
Tulsa, OK, USA
Rachel Powers, MD
1st Year Resident - Psychiatry,
Thomas Jefferson University,
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Sharma S Prabhakar, MD, MBA, FASN
Chief, Division of Nephrology and
Hypertension,
Associate Professor - Medicine and
Physiology,
Texas Tech University Health Sciences
Center,
Lubbock, TX, USA
Susan K Redwood, PhD
Professor of Behavioral Sciences,
Oklahoma State University Center for
Health Sciences,
College of Osteopathic Medicine,
Tulsa, OK, USA
Susan Mara Richman, MD
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Yale University School of Medicine,
New Haven, CT, USA
Kenneth S Rosenthal, PhD
Professor of Microbiology, Immunology
and Biochemistry,
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of
Medicine,
Rootstown, OH, USA
William A Roy, PT, PhD
Associate Professor of Basic Sciences,
Touro University - Nevada,
Henderson, Nevada, USA
Lori B Siegel MD, FACP, FACR
Professor of Medicine,
The Chicago Medical School,
North Chicago, IL, USA
Anne C Simon, DO
Family Medicine,
Baylor Medical Center Garland,
Garland, TX, USA
Janet D Smith, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of
Neurobiology and Anatomy,
Drexel University College of Medicine,
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Craig W Stevens, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology,
Department of Pharmacology and
Physiology,
OSU-Center for Health Sciences,
College of Osteopathic Medicine,
Tulsa, OK, USA
Vivian M Stevens, PhD
Professor, Department of Behavioral
Sciences,
Oklahoma State University Center for
Health Sciences,
College of Osteopathic Medicine,
Tulsa, OK, USA
Carryl Tan Oei, DO
Resident Physician,
Family Medicine,
Baylor Family Medicine at Garland,
Garland, TX, USA
Louise S Thai, MD
Course Director, Molecular Microbiology
and Immunology,
Department of Medical Microbiology and
Immunology,
University of Missouri,
Columbia, MO, USA
Stephen R Thompson, MD, MEd
Resident, Department of Orthopaedics,
University of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD, USA
Anthony Vallarino, DO
Resident Physician,
Family Medicine,
Baylor Family Medicine at Garland,
Garland, TX, USA
Timothy Wong, MD
Chief Medical Resident,
Department of Medicine,
New York University,
Bellevue Hospital Center,
New York, NY, USA
Alexander S Zusman, MD
1st Year Resident - Pediatrics,
University of California,
San Francisco, CA, USA
 

CCS Writers

All CCS cases at USMLE Consult are written in USMLETM style and undergo a rigorous
review process before being accepted for our CCS case bank.

John Fletcher, MD
Private Consultant,
Clayton, MO, USA

Mayur K Movalia, MD
Hematopathology Fellow,
Hartford Hospital,
Hartford, CT, USA

Reviewers

All questions at USMLE Consult are written in USMLETM style and undergo a rigorous
review process before being accepted for our question banks.

Jeffrey K Actor, PhD
Associate Professor,
University of Texas-Houston Medical
School,
Houston, TX, USA;
and
Medical Immunology Course Director, MSI,
Department of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine,
Houston, TX, USA

Bradley D Anawalt, MD
Associate Chief of Medicine,
VA Puget Sound,
Seattle, WA, USA;
and
Associate Professor of Medicine,
University of Washington,
Seattle, WA, USA

Bradley J Benson, MD, FACP
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
and Pediatrics,
Director of Medicine-Pediatrics Residency
Program,
University of Minnesota Medical School,
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Mitchell L Berk, PhD
Professor, Department of Anatomy and
Pathology,
Joan C Edwards School of Medicine,
Marshall University,
Huntington, WV, USA

Robert A Bloodgood, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology,
Department of Cell Biology,
University of Virginia School of Medicine,
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Dirk Burkhardt, MD, MSc, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience,
Department of Physiology and Neuroscience,
St. George's University,
Grenada, West Indies

Maria T Caserta, MD, PhD
Associate Director of the Memory Center
and Associate Professor,
Department of Psychiatry,
University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL, USA

Ilseung Cho, MD
Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology,
New York University Medical Center,
New York, NY, USA

Rebecca L Cox, PhD
Medical Microbiology Course Director,
Department of Microbiology and Molecular
Genetics,
University of Texas Health Science Center-
Houston,
Houston, TX, USA

Mfon S Cyrus-David, MBBS, MS
Assistant Professor of Cancer Epidemiology,
Prevention &Control,
Program Director, Cancer Epidemiology &
Interventions Program,
Chronic Disease Prevention & Control
Research Center,
Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX, USA

Kim-Lan Czelusta, MD
Associate Director of Residency Education,
Menninger Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences,
Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX, USA

Pamela L Derstine, PhD
Senior Project Manager,
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education,
Chicago, IL, USA

Richard L Drake, PhD
Director of Anatomy and Professor of
Surgery,
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
of Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland Clinic,
Cleveland, OH, USA

Judah Fierstein, MD
Attending, Emergency Department,
Jersey City Medical Center,
Jersey City, NJ, USA

Jodi Freidman, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine,
UCLA Department of Medicine,
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Stanley Goldfarb, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine,
Associate Dean for Curriculum,
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine,
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Richard Hansford, BSc, PhD
Chair and Professor of Biochemistry,
St. George's University School of Medicine,
Grenada, West Indies

C Philip Hudson, MD
Assistant Professor-Associate Residency
Director,
Director, FM Ward Service,
Department of Family and Preventive
Medicine,
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR, USA

Jon Kibble, PhD
Associate Professor of Physiology,
Memorial University of Newfoundland,
Faculty of Medicine,
Health Sciences Centre,
St John's, NL, Canada

Thomas C King, MD, PhD
Associate Professor,
Department of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine,
Boston Medical Center,
Boston, MA, USA

Joshua E Lane, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Departments of Medicine (Dermatology)
and Surgery,
Mercer University School of Medicine,
Macon, GA, USA;
and
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Department of Dermatology,
Emory University School of Medicine,
Atlanta, GA, USA;
and
Clinical Instructor,
Division of Dermatology, Department of
Medicine,
The Medical College of Georgia,
Augusta, GA, USA

Geoffrey Leung, MD
Physician,
Family Medicine,
Riverside, CA, USA

James W Lomax, MD
Associate Chairman and Director of
Educational Programs,
Karl Menninger Chair in Psychiatry
Education,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences,
Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX, USA

David Moore, MD
Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of
Residency Education,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences,
Emory University School of Medicine,
Atlanta, GA, USA

Mayur K Movalia, MD
Hematopathology Fellow,
Hartford Hospital,
Hartford, CT, USA

Bret P Nelson, MD
Director of Emergency Ultrasound,
Department of Emergency Medicine,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
New York, NY, USA

James M Norton, PhD
Professor of Physiology, Department of
Physiology,
University of New England College of
Osteopathic Medicine,
Biddeford, NE, USA

Randolph L Pearson, MD, FAAFP, FACSM
Associate Professor, Department of Family
Practice,
Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI, USA;
and
Senior Associate Director and Fellowship
Director,
Sparrow/MSU Family Medicine Residency,
Lansing, MI, USA

John W Pelley, PhD 
Associate Professor Cell Biology and
Biochemistry, 
Department of Cell Biology and
Biochemistry, 
Texas Tech University Health Sciences
Center, 
Lubbock, TX, USA

Dinesh S Rao, MD
Department of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine,
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA,
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hope Ricciotti, MD
Associate Professor, Obstetrics,
Gynecology and Reproductive Biology,
Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA, USA;
and
Director of Medical Education,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Boston, MA, USA

Donna M Russo, PhD
Associate Dean of Medical Education,
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology,
Department of Microbiology and
Immunology,
Drexel University College of Medicine,
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Joseph E Scherger MD, MPH
Clinical Professor, Department of Family
and Preventative Medicine,
UCSD School of Medicine,
San Diego, CA, USA

Carol E H Scott-Conner, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Department of
Surgery,
University of Iowa Carver College of
Medicine,
Iowa City, IA, USA

Marianna Sockrider, MD, DrPH, AE-C
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX, USA;
and
Adjunct Faculty Member in Behavioral
Science,
University of Texas, School of Public
Health,
Houston, TX, USA

Brennan M R Spiegel, MD, MSHS
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System,
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA,
Los Angeles, Ca, USA;
and
Director, UCLA/VA Center for Outcomes
Research and Education,
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Craig W Stevens, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology,
Department of Pharmacology and
Physiology,
OSU-Center for Health Sciences,
College of Osteopathic Medicine,
Tulsa, OK, USA

James S Tan, MD
Chairman,
Department of Medicine,
Summa Health Systems,
Akron, OH, USA

Stephen R Thompson, MD, MEd
Resident, Department of Orthopaedics,
University of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD, USA

Joseph M Wu, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, MS Program Director,
New York Medical College,
Valhalla, NY, USA

Shahram Yazdani, MD
Director, Resident Medical Education,
Site Director of 3rd Year Medical School
Clerkship,
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
Department of Pediatrics,
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA,
Los Angeles, CA, USA

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