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Eric has graduated from the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell is currently a preliminary internal medicine resident (PGY-1) at his home program at North Shore / LongIsland Jewish Medical Center. He has matched into an advanced anesthesiology residency position at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, one of Harvard Medical School’s teaching hospitals.

Before medical school, Eric graduated with departmental honors in Biology from Vassar College, where he was also Captain of the EMS agency. During his gap year, he worked as are search assistant at Northwell Health in Thoracic Surgery, managing a lung cancer database and publishing a paper on the benefits of robotic surgery for lung cancer. At the Zucker School of Medicine, Eric was as an interviewer for the BS/MD Combined 4+4 Program and served on the admissions committee for the MD program.

Eric has a passion for medical education and helping students achieve their goals. As an admissions coach, he has mentored numerous pre-medical students at all points of preparing for the application process. Eric specializes in taking a holistic approach to help students display their unique strengths beyond their academic record or metrics, allowing medical school admissions committees to fully appreciate their individuality. Additionally, Eric brings first-hand insight to the CASPer test, having taken it as both a pre-medical and medical student, recently scoring in the top quartile. For residency applications, Eric has mentored numerous students applying into anesthesiology and helps students from the initial application process all the way to developing their rank list.

With Inspira Advantage, he hopes to continue helping even more students on their journey to become a physician and to help those in medical schools match into their top residency programs!

Vivek has a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from UNC Chapel Hill. During undergrad, he was an active volunteer with multiple organizations and was a teaching assistant for many courses in his program. He also participated in research within the field, including a research internship at the National Institute of Health. After his undergraduate degree, Vivek completed a post-baccalaureate program in Graduate Health Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University. After completing this program, he remained at VCU to serve as a program administrator,–advising students on optimal study habits and helping them craft their personal statements, perfect their activity descriptions, and prepare for their interviews. 

Vivek is pursuing his MD at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and has served on the admissions committee for two years. He is set to graduate this year and is currently applying for a radiology residency. Vivek has extensive experience coaching students through the medical school application process. He is incredibly passionate about helping Advantage students make the most of their med school applications and achieve their goals!

Dr. Kessler was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and attended the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD for her undergraduate studies in pre-med and French. While at Johns Hopkins, she led the JHU Medical Ethics Discussion Panel, and worked in a neurology and neurosurgery research lab. She then attended the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NYC and graduated in 2021 with distinction in research. While at Mount Sinai, Dr. Kessler was the recipient of numerous awards, including a merit-based tuition scholarship all four years of medical school. She has authored almost 30 papers related to neurosurgery and neurology published in national medical journals (see pubmed.gov), and was the only US medical student to be awarded a national grant from the Congress in Neurological Surgeons in 2018–2019 for her work in spinal cord injury research.

While in medical school, Dr. Kessler founded the Special Forces Neurosurgery Collaborative (www.sfneurosurgery.org) with neurosurgeons from Mount Sinai, Cleveland Clinic, and the leadership of the US Green Beret Foundation, which is an organization that spearheads neurosurgery research initiatives geared towards addressing the unique healthcare needs of America's Special Forces warriors. Dr. Kessler has given over a dozen lectures on her research at national conferences and is currently a medical editor and reviewer for the Journal of Special Operations Medicine and MyHealthTeams, LLC.

She was previously a reviewer for World Neurosurgery journal and has authored five textbook chapters in major neurosurgical textbooks. In 2021, Dr. Kessler matched into neurosurgery residency at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. She has extensive experience teaching and tutoring undergraduates, and assisting in medical school and residency applications. I look forward to working with you and helping you to achieve your goals in a career in medicine!

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