Residency Match Support

Dr. Marinelli graduated magna cum laude from California State University, San Marcos with a bachelor’s degree in Biology. While attending school, she worked for a neurosurgeon where she led clinical trials, taught biology as a supplemental instruction leader. Dr. Marinelli was accepted to multiple medical schools and attended the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine where she served on the admissions committee and interviewed many applicants. In medical school, she met her future husband and MedSchoolCoach advisor, Dr. David Flick. After medical school, both Dr. Marinelli and her husband attended family medicine residency in Hawaii where she also served on the residency admissions committee. After her son was born, she decided to step away from clinical medicine and joined the MedSchoolCoach team. Since that time, she has mentored and assisted hundreds of students in the medical school admissions process and brings a wealth of experience serving on both medical school and residency admission committees.

Dr. Marinelli is the Director of Advisors at MedSchoolCoach where she continues to advise applicants but also serves to oversee all of the advising applicants. She is excited to continue to provide guidance to students while spending quality time with her son.

Dr. Yoediono graduated Cum Laude from Yale University with Honors in Psychology. He received his MD from the University of Rochester of Medicine and Dentistry and did his training at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Program. Following his residency, he received an MBA at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Afterwards, he worked in various capacities at Duke University: Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Prospective Health Care – a center he helped evolve with the Chancellor Emeritus, Associate Director of the Master of Management Studies Program at the Fuqua School of Business and Special Assistant to Duke University’s Chancellor for Health Affairs. In addition to serving as a Duke University pre-major advisor for freshman and sophomores, he was an admissions interviewer for Duke University School of Medicine, the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Program. He also advised many Duke premeds in terms of medical school applications, essays and interviews. He co-authored papers that were published in The New England Journal of Medicine and Academic Medicine.

Dr. Comfort graduated with a Bachelors in Chemistry with Honors from New York University. She then switched coasts and completed her medical degree from the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. During that time, she was a private tutor for USMLE Step 1 and led peer-review based tutoring sessions. She scored >250 on both USMLE Step 1 and USMLE Step 2. She also interviewed students for the admissions committee, interviewing dozens of candidates for medical school and giving extensive feedback to the admissions committee. Dr. Comfort is currently an Obstetrics and Gynecological resident at New York University School of Medicine, where she won the Best Resident Teacher award her PGY-2 year. Her interests lie in minimally invasive gynecological surgery.

Dr. Choo earned her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley where she majored in molecular and cell biology and minored in Spanish. Before going to medical school she spent one year teaching MCAT classes. She went on to complete her medical degree at UC San Diego and pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children’s).

After graduating from residency, Dr. Choo became a Chief Resident and Associate Program Director at the CHOC Children’s and UC Irvine residency programs. During that time, she served on the admissions committee where she reviewed hundreds of applications. She has also worked with the UC Irvine medical school in teaching students and preparing them for the application process.

Dr. Choo is currently a board certified pediatrician at CHOC Children’s outpatient clinic, where she regularly works with and teaches residents in her practice.

Dr. Houser graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in social and behavioral sciences, and initially planned to pursue a career in research. She went on to earn an M. Phil. in cognitive neuropsychology from George Washington University, completing her research work at the NIH. Although she found her area of research really exciting, she felt she wanted a more direct helping relationship with patients. She returned to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to earn her M.D., then went on to train as an emergency medicine physician at North Shore University Hospital in New York, an NYU program. She rounded out her training with a fellowship in wilderness medicine – an area of consulting and practice she has enjoyed immensely over the years.

Dr. Houser has been recognized as an outstanding teacher, mentor, and advisor, and has now been working in the field extensively for nearly twenty years. She served on the medical school admissions committee for University of Texas at Houston School of Medicine, as a former residency program director has also been extensively involved in residency applicant selection and advising. She joins MedSchoolCoach with a passion for advising, enthusiastic to help students reach their goals.

Dr. Kelly was born and raised in New York City. Upon graduating Stuyvesant High School, he moved to Washington, DC. He attended Georgetown University, majoring in biology with a minor in philosophy. After graduating college, he attended Georgetown for medical school, where he became interested in Ophthalmology. Moving back to New York, he matched at North Shore/Long Island Jewish for residency. He served as chief resident, and was responsible for interviewing prospective residents.

After becoming board certified, Dr. Kelly started working with the Osler Institute, helping Ophthalmologists prepare for their oral boards. He is currently in private practice, working in Manhattan and Long Island. In his spare time, Dr. Kelly likes to travel the world, listen to live music, and root for the Mets, Giants, Knicks and Georgetown basketball.

He is excited to help prospective students get accepted to medical school!