Some of our team in alphabetical order.

Sumit Dua

Sumit is a 2nd year medical student at USC – Keck School of Medicine. He attained his undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry & Cell Biology and Psychology at the University of California, at San Diego. Prior to attending medical school, he founded and directed an Information Technology firm. Sumit’s interests include magic (especially card-magic), films, and photography. He has way too much time on his hands and therefore spends a majority of that at Starbucks doing stuff like this.

Donny Hannoun

Donny is a 2nd year medical student that attended UC Santa Barbara for his undergraduate education. He received a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Biochemistry. He is currently interested in Hematology/Oncology and is doing research on the correlation between important clotting factors involved in the blood and prostate cancer. Donny is a big-time USC Trojans fan, and is always up for watching football and playing a variety of sports.

Aaron Neinstein

Aaron is a second year medical student at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He graduated with a B.A. in American Studies from Northwestern University. He enjoys playing guitar, basketball, skiing, baseball, wiffle ball, traveling, and photography. He loves talking about politics and sports and is impatiently anticipating the day the Dodgers win the World Series.

Heather Stocks

Heather is a second year medical student at USC. She attended UCLA undergrad as a Psychobiology major and was very active in clinical work. She’s interested in surgery of some type and enjoys hands-on subjects like Anatomy. Outside of school, she likes ballet and movies, but her favorite thing is shopping and she is doing a great job of spending all those medical school loans.

Shahrzad Akhtar

Shahrzad is a 2nd year medical student at USC. She attended UC Berkeley for undergraduate studies and majored in English. She is interested in primary care and enjoys working with people, but in uncertain of the field of medicine she would like to pursue. Outside of school, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, traveling, laughing, and playing with her cat.

Joshua Ball

Josh is a third year medical student at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He attended Drury University as an undergraduate and received B.A. degrees in Biology and in Psychology. When not being pimped into submission on the wards, Josh enjoys spending time with his two young children and wife. He is currently considering a career in radiology.

John Compoginis

John is currently a second year medical student. He earned a bachelors degree in Molecular and Cell Biology with a minor in Toxicology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is interested in anesthesiology and his hobbies include drawing and NBA basketball.

Marisa Fernandez

Marisa is a second year medical student at USC, Keck School of Medicine. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1998 with a degree in Psychology. Following graduation, she completed a post-baccalaureate program at University of Pennsylvania, and has worked designing databases, writing developmental psychology books and dabbled some in graphic design. She enjoys martial arts, taking art classes at night and photography.

Katrina Fu

Katrina attended Stanford University, where she earned a B.S. degree in Biological Sciences. She enjoys a variety of things from cooking, baking, and knitting to shooting hoops, exercising, and soaking in the great outdoors. Katrina is currently a second year medical student at USC, and plans to seek a possible career in pediatrics. Her philosophy – “There are a lot of books available out there to help pull you through medical school and boards – this is great, but one can easily get lost in it all. So, I chose to review books for Gotmedbooks.com because I personally found it very beneficial when other people would give me their advice and opinions on what books are helpful and why, and what books are better left on the shelf."

Golnaz Haghighian

Goli is a second year medical student. She completed her undergraduate education at Duke University where she received a B.S. in Biology. She loves movies, reading, and Italian food.

Paul Jhun

Paul attended Stanford University, where he earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering. He spends most of his extracurricular time and passion devoted to a local church and a homeless ministry located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Paul is currently a second year medical student at USC, and upon entering residency, he hopes to also enroll in a theological seminary program.

Monish Laxpati

Monish is a second year medical student at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. He also attended USC for undergrad where he earned a B.A. in Biology and minors in Economics and Bioethics. In his time away from the books, he enjoys snowboarding, music, movies, and most importantly sleeping. Monish is a also a huge Trojan football fan, and regularly attends the football games, including the 2004 Rose Bowl and 2005 Orange Bowl. Back-2-Back Champs! Fight On!

Jennifer Malin

Jennifer is a second year medical student at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. She grew up skiing and snowboarding in Boulder, Colorado, then moved to Los Angeles and attended undergrad at Pitzer College in Pomona. Some of her hobbies include reading, jogging, skiing and recent attempts at surfing.

Andréa Cristine Rios

Andréa is a second year medical student at Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Pomona, CA. She has been involved in motor vehicle crash injury prevention research at UC Irvine’s Emergency Department for three years and has submitted and conducted several research projects. She is the current president of the Western University Chapter of the Latino Medical Student Association and is very active in Latino healthcare issues. Andréa was also a former high school science teacher, and is currently designing health science curriculum for the Academy of Culture and Technology Charter School in Pomona, CA. She is also a student advisor for the Center for Intercultural/Cross-cultural Program Committee at Western University.

Tanmai Saxena

Tanmai is currently in his second medical school year in the MD/PhD program at USC Keck School of Medicine. He attended University of California, San Diego for his undergraduate studies, earning a BS in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and a BS in Economics/Management Science. His current research in Genetic Epidemiology promises to keep him in school for at least six more years, after which he has two more years of medical school rotations, then will spend another five-or-so years in a residency program and then finish with 2 years in a fellowship just in time to retire poor, single, disgruntled, with a fully exhaustive outdated education. Outside of the classroom, Tanmai enjoys playing and watching basketball and thinking about why.

Amir Schricker

Amir is a 2nd year medical student at USC. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and then earned an MS from the Johns Hopkins University in Biomedical Engineering. He is interested in cardiology, specifically electrophysiology, a field that he has been involved with for several years.

Peter Thompson

Peter received his Master's degree from USC in 2000 from the Dept. of Cell & Neurobiology, having studied anatomical sciences and medical education. He taught Gross anatomy and Neuroanatomy to the 1st year medical class during that time. Since then, he has developed and taught the USC Summer Bridge Anatomy course for the last 5 summers while teaching high school biology full time. Currently Peter is a 2nd year medical student at USC Keck School of Medicine where he served as a Gross Anatomy teaching assisstant for his fellow classmates during year one. Overall, he has about 7 years teaching experience in Gross anatomy and is dedicated to education both now and in his future career as a physician.

Amy Tu

Amy is from picturesque Oak Park, California and is currently a 2nd year medical student at USC’s Keck School of Medicine. She is a true spirited Trojan as she finished her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at USC as well. When she has spare time away from reviewing medical texts, she loves trying new restaurants, shopping, playing and listening to music, eating fruit, cheese, and chocolate, and making crafty things with ribbon.

Kristina Vander Wall

Kristina has a B.A. degree in Molecular and Cell Biology and in English from the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently a second-year medical student at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. In her spare time she coaches for the Special Olympics, runs, watches football and reads non-med-school books. Kristina is currently doing an independent project investigating health care resources for the developmentally disabled. She loves dogs, fuzzy blankets, and Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia.

Jeff Wang

Jeff is currently a second-year medical student at the Keck USC School of Medicine. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering/Bioethics. He is interests include any kind of cycling, playing tennis, and watcing his Trojans battle to the top of college sports. Jeff recently spent 6 weeks in China researching the pathogenesis of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Upcoming projects include a Korean/Chinese/English translation guide for clinicians, redoing the entire kitchen and dining area of his condo, and prepping for the Step 1s.

Daniel Weingrow

Daniel is a second year medical student at Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine. He attended Lawrence University for undergraduate coursework; triple majoring in Biology, Psychology and Neuroscience. During the summer of 2004, Daniel helped work on vaccine development for Pseudomonas Aeruginosa at UCSF Department of Anesthesiology. When not studying, Daniel works lecturing to first year medical students on the basic clinical sciences. He plans on doing a residency in either Cardiology or Neurology.

Kumar Desai

Kumar Desai is a graduate of UC Berkeley and majored in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in cognitive and computer sciences. The title of his subject of interest was: Human Interaction with Tools - from stones to computers. Based in San Francisco, Kumar is the lead programmer/designer for the GotMedBooks website and works on web programming projects all over the USA. He can be contacted at tech@kumardesai.com or by visiting his website at www.kumardesai.com.