Meet Inspira Advantage’s Residency Experts

Dr. Chan is an integrated interventional radiology resident at the University of California, San Francisco. She has a Bachelor of Science with honors in biology from Stanford University and an MD from Yale School of Medicine. With a solid foundation in admissions counseling, she has more than 10 years of experience guiding students through the rigorous application processes in higher education.

Dr. Ladines-Lim’s extensive educational background includes a BS from the University of Maryland, an MD from the Yale School of Medicine, and a PhD from MIT. He then completed an Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Combined Residency at the University of Michigan and is currently an Infectious Diseases Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. LaRivière is an accomplished Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) alumnus and general surgery resident at the University of Colorado. He has 15+ years of coaching and admissions experience, including serving on the University of Colorado’s MSTP admissions committee and working as an applicant reviewer for his residency program.

Dr. Ng is a spine surgery fellow at Rothman Orthopaedics, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He was previously a Chief Resident in orthopedic surgery at the Maimonides Medical Center, a level 1 trauma center and the largest hospital in Brooklyn, NY. He has over a decade of admissions and coaching experience, including serving for years as an interviewer at Case Western University School of Medicine.

Dr. Chung is a general surgery resident at the University of California, San Diego with 10+ years of mentorship experience, serving as an MIT educational counselor and a medical admissions committee member at the Yale School of Medicine. She has over 30 articles featured in major journals including scientific manuscripts, invited commentaries, and personal essays, and was an ad hoc reviewer for JAMA Surgery.

Dr. Mellacheruvu is a resident physician at Penn Medicine. He serves on the Resident Steering Committee where he collaborates with faculty and program directors to shape the residency experience. Dr. Mellacheruvu has extensive mentorship in helping students craft meaningful medical school personal statements and CVs; he has also acted as an MCAT, Step exam, and college-level STEM course tutor.

Dr. Ravi graduated with an MD from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine after completing her undergraduate studies in cognitive science at Rice University. She is a neurology resident at Houston Methodist Hospital, one of the nation's top-ranked neurology and neurosurgery hospitals. Dr. Ravi has years of mentorship and admissions experience with a strong background in research.

Dr. Patel is an internal medicine resident physician at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and an incoming gastroenterology fellow at Staten Island University Hospital in NYC. Throughout his medical education, he has been actively involved in research, publishing manuscripts, and presenting his work at national and international conferences. Dr. Patel is a Doximity Digital Health Fellow and has diverse teaching and mentoring experience.

Dr. Rand is a resident physician at UC San Diego. She has served as a student interviewer at UC Irvine, where she honed her communication, organization, and empathy skills to guide students through their journey toward healthcare careers. She looks forward to helping students find structure, clarity, and confidence in their medical school applications.

Dr. Podury earned her MD from Harvard Medical School in the Harvard-MIT HST Program after completing her BA in Neuroscience at Cornell. With a talent for improving patients' lives through technology and research, she is eager to guide applicants through the admissions process.

Dr. Lee received his MD from the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine and is pursuing an advanced anesthesiology residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital. While attending the Zucker School of Medicine, he served as an interviewer for the BS/MD Combined 4+4 Program and MD (hybrid traditional-MMI) interviewer and committee voting member.

Dr. Chaturvedi is an anesthesiology resident at Weill Cornell Medical Center. While attending the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, he published over 30 PubMed-indexed manuscripts, including both journal articles and book chapters. With years of coaching experience, Dr. Chaturvedi has coached dozens of students through the medical school and residency application processes.

Dr. Sarad is a general surgery resident at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center with 15+ years of experience in mentorship and admissions. She has served on admissions committees at the Keck Graduate Institute as a graduate admissions assistant and at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine as a student admissions liaison.