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Professors
Dr. Randy
Professor
Dr. Randy, MedEdits COO, has been a national leader and innovator in both public and private medical education and admissions for more than two decades.As a pediatric resident at Beth Israel/Long Island College Hospital in New York City, he was a member and leader of the residency review committee (RRC) and began working with medical students and residents to improve the residency screening and on-boarding process in New York City.
He then continued this mission as a fellow in Neonatal / Perinatal Medicine at Northshore / Long Island Jewish Hospital (currently Northwell Health).With his background in pediatrics and neonatal medicine, he returned to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital, an 800 bed academic teaching hospital in New York City, where he guided medical students, residents, and fellows.
For the past decade as MedEdits COO, he has played a pivotal role in connecting pre-medical, medical students and residents and their families with advisors and resources that has helped hundreds of prospective physicians launch their careers.
He has also worked with organizations such as New York Academy of Medicine, AMSA, and others to extend MedEdits' reach.
Dr. Ash
Professor
Dr. Ash has been working in medical education for the past 30 years. He has earned the appointment Professor of Medicine, while serving as one of the longest active program directors in Internal Medicine for 20 years, the sub-internship site director for Temple University School of Medicine and Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM) for 28 years and working as a clerkship director, he has amassed significant experience in learning what it takes to be a successful healthcare provider. His clinical experiences ranged from being an academic hospitalist to a preceptor for student and resident learners in the ambulatory continuity practice. These clinical experiences have allowed him to work closely with trainees during their clinical rotations, guiding their growth as both learners and future colleagues.
A physician member of the Widener-Crozer scholars committee, he helped select students for an early assurance program for Temple University School of Medicine as well as on the DUCOM medical school admissions committee. These roles have given him a unique perspective on the qualities that make a strong and compelling applicant. With years of experience reviewing applications and interviewing candidates, he enjoys helping students navigate the path to medical school with confidence and clarity. Many resident learners have matched to prestigious highly competitive fellowships and are now enjoying a productive career in the various competitive fields including cardiology, pulmonary/critical care, gastroenterology, and many more.
When working with students, Dr. Ash takes a thoughtful, structured, and honest approach. His advising style is supportive but direct — he is nurturing and approachable, yet not afraid to challenge students to think critically about their goals, their application materials, and how they tell their story. Students can expect detailed, practical feedback with clear next steps. Whether reviewing personal statements, interview strategies, or application timelines, he combines high standards with compassion and clarity. He has a personal philosophy of living a balanced life, where he enjoys numerous outdoor activities including having trekked in the Himalayas, summitted Kilimanjaro, and crossing the Grand Canyon by raft. Outside of these adventures, he enjoys a healthy lifestyle at the gym, pickleball, and golf in addition to spending quality time with his 3 boys, all who are pursuing a career in medicine.
Above all, Dr. Ash believes in helping students bring their authentic voice to the forefront, and in equipping them with the tools and confidence they need to succeed in medicine.
Sydney
Professor
Sydney has over 15 years of medical education experience and has worked for MedEdits for seven years. She first started as the Assistant Director of Pre-Professional Advising at the University of South Carolina assisting pre-med and pre-health students in their pursuit of advanced degrees. A move to Houston, TX brought her to Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Surgery where she was the residency coordinator for over 80 general surgery residents and helped to supervise several other surgical fellowships within the department. Through these experiences, Sydney has gained a diverse perspective on medical school and residency applications and has much success in both acceptances and matches for her clients. In addition, she has worked with many pre-health clients interested in careers such as Physician Assistant, Genetics, Dentist, Physical Therapist, and Anesthesia Assistant.
Sydney has worked with a wide range of diverse clients from students, veterans, non-traditional and international applicants. She has a passion for helping clients obtain their dreams of becoming a medical or healthcare professional. Her style of advising is very hands-on and client centered. She enjoys mapping out the whole process in a step-by-step manner with goal setting and timelines for each step in the application cycle. Her empathy and compassion shows in her advising as she focuses on support and guidance, while also giving a true picture of each client's pathway.
Outside of MedEdits, Sydney is an educator at her local K-12 charter school and pre-school. She also has three children who keep her very busy. She loves to read, exercise and travel.
Dr. Krystal
Professor
Dr. Krystal, a native of Buffalo, New York, holds a BA in Organizational Communications from SUNY Brockport, an MS in Higher Education Administration from Buffalo State College, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and the Science of Learning from the University at Buffalo.
With over 11 years of experience in medical education and medical school admissions at Upstate Medical University, she has cultivated deep expertise in guiding students through the competitive application process for BS/MD, MD, MD/PhD, MD/MBA, MD/MPH, and postbac academic enhancement programs. As a physician workforce and diversity researcher, Dr. Krystal is committed to addressing disparities in healthcare by developing pathways that increase representation in medicine, particularly in underserved communities.
Most recently, she has worked as a strategist, designing and implementing health professions programs that align with regional and national healthcare needs. With insider knowledge of how admissions committees evaluate candidates, she specializes in helping students from all backgrounds craft compelling applications and hone their interview skills to stand out in the competitive selection process. Her expertise ensures that each applicant presents a meaningful and authentic narrative that highlights their strengths and potential as future physicians.
Debra
Professor
Debra, MA, LMFT, has spent the past decade helping future physicians achieve their education and training goals. As Assistant Director of Career Success at Stanford School of Medicine, she conducted more than 1,000 coaching and advising sessions for medical school and residency applicants, contributing to a 98% medical school acceptance rate and first-choice residency matches.
At Stanford, Debra developed curriculum and led workshops on interviewing, writing personal statements, and crafting CVs. She also served as a career consultant to premedical, medical, and graduate medical education departments, and she volunteered as an MMI rater. Debra’s advising style is supportive, direct, and collaborative. She guides students in developing a successful application strategy, selecting activities that strengthen medical school and residency applications, and communicating persuasively in their essays and interviews.
In her free time, Debra enjoys traveling, spending time at the beach, and practicing Zen meditation.
Laurie
Professor
Laurie has worked in various aspects of medical education for her entire career. With a background in counseling psychology, she worked in the medical education departments at Feinberg/Northwestern School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, and The Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
She was a faculty member at Mount Sinai and promoted to an Assistant Dean of Student Affairs. In this role she served as the primary academic and professional/career advisor to medical students to address all academic issues affecting students including academic advising, counseling, mentoring, and test-taking skills and strategies. She was also in charge of preparing all fourth year Mount Sinai medical students for the residency admissions process.
Laurie also served key roles on the medical school admissions committees at Feinberg/Northwestern and Mount Sinai. Laurie's scholarly interests are in the areas of professional and career development, specialty choice, appropriate referrals and help/remediation for students with marginal and failing grades, and the interface between curricular and student affairs.
Because of her extensive experience in medical education and advising, she has wisdom and an understanding of medical education and training that is unmatched. Laurie is also a warm, supportive, and nurturing person which makes her a tremendous asset for the students with whom she works.
Dr. Allison
Professor
Dr. Allison is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist and physician scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She is double board certified in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology, with subspecialized expertise in pediatric neuro-oncology. Her impressive career in academics has combined clinical excellence with a vibrant research component, having been awarded multiple grants and awards for her efforts to improve pediatric outcomes, with opportunities to present her work across the globe.
She has served in vital leadership positions throughout her medical career, with over 10 years of experience sitting on admissions committees for medical schools, residency programs and fellowship programs, and over 8 years of medical school teaching experience with multiple teaching awards including the Gold Humanism Honor Society Teaching Award.
Allison believes that meaningful mentorship is built on trust, personal connection, honest communication and realistic advice. She is known for her approachable ease and has helped countless students and trainees transform daunting tasks into milestone achievements! When not at the hospital, Allison can be found traveling, trying new recipes or exploring the outdoors with her husband and three children.
Dr. Trish
Professor
Dr. Trish has a decade of experience in academic medicine providing mentorship across the medical education continuum. She currently serves as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at two allopathic medical schools and was an associate program director of her university's pediatric residency program for several years.
As an advisor to both medical students and residents, Dr. Trish advised extensively in residency, fellowship and job applicants. She also served on the medical school admissions committee, reviewing, evaluating, and interviewing medical school applicants. As a lead for her residency program's recruitment, she reviewed hundreds of application for residency positions.
With a decade of insight to the qualities sought after in medical students and residents and a graduate of an accelerated BS/MD program, Dr. Trish brings great insight to the MedEdits team and understands the requirements and subtleties needed to successfully gain admission to highly competitive medical schools and residency programs.
Her students have been accepted to NYU, Dartmouth, George Washington, Northwestern (Feinberg), Einstein and many more. Her students have benefited from a 100% osteopathic acceptance rate and a more than 98% allopathic acceptance rate.
Assistant Professors
Dr. Taylor
Assistant Professor
Taylor graduated cum laude from a competitive 6-year BA/MD program where she served on several committees, including the admissions committee. She has a passion for medical education and leadership and has held several leadership positions in multiple local and national medical organizations, including the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Student National Medical Association.
Taylor was the Dean's Honor Graduate and was recognized for her leadership and dedication to mentorship and community service while in medical school. As a current general surgery resident, Taylor is actively involved in both undergraduate and graduate medical education and her research is nationally funded.
Taylor views mentorship as a vital aspect to being successful in medicine. Her kind, honest, and collaborative approach, along with her experiences, allows her to form an effective partnership with her students. She looks forward to working with you!
Dr. Rohit
Assistant Professor
Dr. Rohit is an emergency medicine physician practicing in Georgia. He graduated summa cum laude with honors from the University of Pittsburgh and received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Prior to starting medical school, Rohit worked in healthcare technology and higher education consulting, founding a partnered start-up, Altian Education, with the University of Pittsburgh that focused on building mentorship at the undergraduate level.
Throughout his education, Rohit has mentored students from high school students to medical students preparing for residency in areas of mock interviews, application processes, and essays. During medical school, he was involved heavily with the interview and admissions process for CWRU SOM, and is now involved in the residency interview process.
He strongly believes in the value of mentorship and is passionate about an honest, collaborative approach to guiding students through the admissions process.
Dr. Mihailo
Assistant Professor
Dr. Mihailo graduated magna cum laude from Boston College with a B.S. in Biological Science and earned his M.D. at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas. In between his undergraduate and medical education, he spent three years teaching high school AP chemistry and physics to socioeconomically disadvantaged communities through Teach for America in Dallas, Texas.
Upon his entrance to Dell Medical School, Dr. Miljanic co-founded the Health Career Collaborative – Austin with two former Teach for America colleagues, which has served as a mentorship program to hundreds of pre-medical students. For his work in founding this academy, Dr. Miljanic and his co-founders received the prestigious United States Excellence in Public Health Award, given on a national level by the United States government.
While in medical school, Dr. Miljanic graduated at the top of his class with Honors and had extensive experience tutoring and mentoring medical students for their upcoming USMLE exams, in addition to serving as an interviewer for medical school admissions and a voting member on the residency admissions committee at UT Southwestern.
Dr. Miljanic is an upper-level resident physician specializing in the field of radiation oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and has published multiple papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Carter
Assistant Professor
Dr. Carter is a cardiothoracic surgery resident at the Medical University of South Carolina and a former medical school admissions committee member with extensive experience in the application review process. While earning his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, he served on the College of Medicine Council, where he participated in discussions about the college’s long-term admissions goals and the type of applicants who best align with its mission.
From 2021 to 2025, he interviewed applicants and evaluated and rated files, gaining valuable insight into how admissions committees assess candidates. Dr. Glenn now combines this insider perspective, leadership experience, and clinical expertise to help aspiring physicians craft compelling applications and stand out in the competitive medical school admissions process.
Dr. R
Assistant Professor
Dr. R graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and is currently completing his dermatology residency at NYU. He began premedical advising nearly one decade ago as a medical student, serving as a lead advisor for Harvard College premedical applicants.
As a resident, he expanded his mentorship to include residency applicants. With experience advising over 400 applicants from diverse backgrounds and goals, Dr. R has helped mentees gain admission to elite allopathic institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, UCSF, and NYU, as well as competitive osteopathic programs.
His advising style is honest, detail-oriented, and supportive, with a strong emphasis on bringing out each mentee’s unique strengths and personal narrative.
In his free time, Dr. R enjoys running and traveling.
Dr. Geena
Assistant Professor
Dr. Geena is a pediatrician practicing on the West Coast. She graduated summa cum laude from University of California-Los Angeles, and went on to receive her medical degree from University of California-San Francisco. Throughout her education and training, she has mentored students interested in the medical field, including speaking on prospective medical student panels, leading mock interviews, reviewing personal statements and secondaries, and conducting one-on-one meetings with her mentees. She has been on faculty with MedEdits since 2022.
Her nurturing personality and strengths in communication and fostering therapeutic relationships has led her to pursue a career in pediatrics and also mentoring. She believes that dedication to preparation, honest feedback, and warm encouragement are the keys to a strong faculty-student relationship. Her students have been accepted to medical schools such as University of Southern California, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, University of South Florida Morsani, and she has worked with residency applicants in Pediatrics, Family Medicine, and Internal Medicine. Her favorite aspect of mentoring is working with applicants to refine their interview skills at the final step of the application.
In her free time, she enjoys exploring new restaurants and cooking.
Editors
Anna
Editor
Anna has over five years of experience coaching students through personal statements, secondary essays, and supplemental application materials. She has supported hundreds of applicants to competitive undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs with a focus on personal storytelling, clarity, and strategic framing. With a graduate background in the social sciences and a particular interest in the intersection of psychology, health, and narrative, Anna brings an interdisciplinary lens to the medical school admissions process. She joined MedEdits in 2025, bringing her editing expertise to support pre-med applicants in crafting authentic, compelling essays.
Anna’s editing style is thoughtful, honest, and student-centered. She brings deep listening and a talent for helping students untangle the emotional weight of their stories, especially when writing about adversity, identity, or personal transformation. She takes a collaborative approach, working to understand each applicant’s unique experiences and voice while providing clear, actionable feedback. Students can expect kind but direct comments, attention to structure and flow, and guidance on how to strengthen their message without sounding formulaic. Her goal is always to help students feel empowered and proud of what they’ve written.
Anna has supported students accepted to a range of highly competitive programs. Since joining MedEdits, she has edited essays for students applying across a wide range of allopathic and osteopathic medical schools. She brings extensive experience helping students revise under tight deadlines and navigate complex narrative challenges in their essays.
In her free time, Anna enjoys gardening (especially growing peppers and tropical houseplants), cooking, hiking, and strength training. She’s also an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, and enjoys keeping up with research on nutrition, health, and advances in preventive and lifestyle medicine. Her personal interests include the psychology of behavior change, mindfulness, and how people build sustainable habits to support well-being.
Gabby
Editor
Gabby is an editor and freelance writer, born in the Bay Area and raised in New Jersey. She graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, and concentrations in theatre performance and writing. With her direct and creative editing style, she believes in helping students learn how to articulate their unique perspectives and approach to medicine, so admissions readers can most clearly see how that student will contribute to an educational community.
She can clearly show those strengths through the innovative ways a student approaches challenges or experiences in their lives, which can help forecast how they'll approach a challenge in medical school and beyond! In her six years working with undergraduate, graduate, and medical school applicants, she has had students go on to programs at Brown University, Ohio State University, Parsons School of Design, Pennsylvania State University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and more.
Outside of her extensive editing work, Gabby is a professional playwright and actor. Most recently, she performed across North America in the Broadway national tour of Fiddler on the Roof, and you may have heard her voice in commercials for brands like Neutrogena and Indeed. At the age of 16, she published two short plays with Samuel French, Inc. (one of the largest theatrical publishing houses in the world) in conjunction with Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights Program.
She spent seven years working for the Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project, a prestigious intensive writing program and concert series for new and upcoming songwriters across the globe. She has done extensive work in accessibility in the arts for students of color, students below the poverty line, and students in the LGBTQ+ community, working for two years as the Programming Liaison for The Fund For College Auditions, a New York City-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that offers support to acting and musical theatre students with limited resources who want to audition for post-high school training programs, focusing on those who identify with groups that are historically and currently underrepresented in theatre, film, and television.
Caryn
Editor
Caryn is a multi award-winning writing and editing professional with more than three decades of experience in journalism and public relations. She worked at newspapers in three states where she mentored and coached novice writers, many of whom now write and edit for some of the largest legacy publications in the United States. Following a career in journalism, Caryn moved into government communications, where she distills complex scientific and environmental topics for public consumption.
Caryn finds that the writing tenets of journalism and public relations translate seamlessly in medical school application documents. She uses an instructive and conversational editing approach so that every client with whom she works understands the reasons behind edits and uses those lessons to transform their narratives.
A Long Island, NY native, Caryn earned her journalism degree from the State University of New York College at Buffalo. She enjoys traveling, photography, the New York Mets and a hot day at the beach – all of which make for great storytelling.
Marian
Editor
Marian has been working as a medical editor and writer for more than 20 years. A former senior editor of Contemporary Pediatrics, she now writes the monthly Journal Club column for that journal as a freelance contributing editor and also has been a contributing writer for Berkeley Health and Wellness Publications.
Marian specializes in pediatric medicine, an area for which she prepares continuing medical education materials, including monographs and meeting reports.
A graduate of Vassar College, Marian also holds a master’s from the University of Michigan.
Rhona
Editor
Rhona has been working for MedEdits for 12 years. A graduate of Rutgers University, she has written and edited articles on a wide range of business and financial topics, from healthcare and employee benefits to personal investments and corporate finance issues, for publications like Best’s Review and Financial Executive magazine.
Rhona also served as publications manager for Financial Executives Research Foundation, and later as a developmental book editor for Bloomberg Press.
Alana
Editor
Alana has been part of MedEdits' editing team for five years and has over 10 years of writing and editing experience, along with a degree in English.
Outside of editing, her work as a tutor and mentor for students applying to college has shaped her adaptable and collaborative approach to helping each client's authentic voice shine through their materials.
She enjoys helping students improve concision and add detail, making the most of tight word limits while polishing a tone that fits each individual client, whether that's formal, passionate, or humorous.