Dr. Gene Saltzberg, Research Mentor at Inspira Advantage

Dr. Saltzberg is an emergency medicine physician and educator with over 40 years of clinical, medical education, and admissions experience. He served as an undergraduate pre-med advisor at Northwestern University, and has taught pre-meds and medical students at Northwestern and Chicago Medical School. Dr. Saltzberg currently works as an associate professor in the University of Chicago Medical School’s Department of Emergency Medicine, where he also completed post-doctoral work.

Dr. Saltzberg holds a BA in psychology, graduating cum laude from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and earned his MD from Rosalind Franklin University Chicago Medical School. He completed his pediatrics residency at Northwestern University’s Children’s Memorial Hospital. After six years of practice, Dr. Saltzberg returned to training in emergency medicine at the University of Nevada.

Dr. Saltzberg has also taught in residency programs at Northwestern University and Chicago Medical School. He also helped create a remote clinical curriculum for basic science students at Chicago Medical School. With 35+ years as an admissions committee member, he is acutely aware of the role research plays in medical school admissions.

Known for his holistic, student-centered approach to research mentorship, Dr. Saltzberg has supported students through multiple research areas. These disciplines include biomedical engineering, development and stem cell biology, epidemiology, genetics, microbiology, infectious disease, neuroscience, physiology, integrative biology, and health services and outcomes research.

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