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David M.D. is a physician-scientist, science communicator, and author, whose public appearances explaining science have included Public Broadcasting TV and numerous panels and interviews on various podcasts and radio shows. David is director of medical research for a medical education startup company, has served as science lead in the United States and Israel for various space life science experiments. He contributes continuing medical education (CME) and perspective articles to Medscape and consults of biotechnology applied to medicine. He authors practice questions and answer explanations for the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), which he tutors, along with basic medical sciences, such as physiology, genetics, biochemistry, and microbiology. He also tutors internal medicine, family medicine, writing, and tutors exams for other types of healthcare clinicians, such as nurses, NPs, and PAs.

He earned his M.D. from the Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, and has done postdoctoral work at Brandeis University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the NASA Johnson Space Center. He earned his Bachelor's degree of Science in Zoology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

David enjoys, and loves explaining, many of the very subjects that often scare students in medical school, premedical students, and those studying, or preparing to study, in the health sciences. If you're having trouble in these areas, or even if you just want to deepen your understanding of the topics to perfect your performance, he will be happy to tutor you, depending, of course, on his time availability, which does fluctuate. Rather than teaching you mnemonics and helping you to memorize without understanding, as is common in the health sciences, David will help you to understand the material, so that you don't need to memorize, except when absolutely necessary. As an example, if you to learn which ECG leads show pathology in which parts of the heart, you can do this by learning the electrophysiology and deriving what shows what based on the locations and polarities of each electrode. If you expect to memorize everything without conceptualizing, do not seek David as a tutor. But if you want to be one of the students who knows --and enjoys-- the material, because it makes sense, contact David and he will guide you through the beautiful mechanisms that manifest from the molecular to the gross level in physiology, biochemistry, and all of the areas that may be giving you trouble. He can tutor you in English, or in Spanish.

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David’s Qualifications
Education & Certification

Undergraduate Degree: University of Massachusetts Amherst - Bachelor of Science, Zoology

Hobbies

writing books, gymnastics, Star Trek. I am nerdy, but I'm good at explaining complex things and digesting them for any level

Tutoring Subjects
Adult ESL/ELL
Anatomy & Physiology
AP Biology
Cardiology
Endocrinology
English
Expository Writing
Health Care Policy
Histology
Medical Terminology
Neurobiology
Neuroscience
Nursing
Pharmacology
Professional Certifications
USMLE Step 2 CK
USMLE Step 3
Writing