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MD, MBA, neuroscience BS. MCAT, USMLE, MBA, NBME, STEP I & II
Nitesh K.

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I am a physician by training, with an MD, an MBA in healthcare, and a neuroscience degree, and most of my working life has been spent explaining hard science to people who have to actually use it. My undergraduate work was in visual neuroscience and neuroanatomy, my medical training included rotations across Chicago-area teaching hospitals, and I later spent three years as a medical science liaison in neurology, translating trial data and pharmacology for practicing neurologists across five...

I am a physician by training, with an MD, an MBA in healthcare, and a neuroscience degree, and most of my working life has been spent explaining hard science to people who have to actually use it. My undergraduate work was in visual neuroscience and neuroanatomy, my medical training included rotations across Chicago-area teaching hospitals, and I later spent three years as a medical science liaison in neurology, translating trial data and pharmacology for practicing neurologists across five states. I am also a Certified Brain Injury Specialist. My work today is education and healthcare advisory rather than clinical practice, so teaching is not a side activity. It is the job.

My teaching has run from one-on-one sessions to hospital lecture halls. Through DoMD Healthcare, a medical tutoring practice I am a partner in, I work with medical, nursing, and allied health students, generally college age through late twenties, on anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, and board preparation. I have given invited grand rounds lectures on the workup of abdominal pain, febrile seizures, and resistant infections, and at AbbVie I ran a regional speaker program training practicing physicians to teach clinical material to their peers. I have three MEDLINE-indexed publications, so I can also teach a student to read a primary paper rather than fear it.

My approach in a session is diagnostic before it is instructional. I start by asking the student to walk me through how they are thinking about a problem, because a wrong answer almost always traces back to one broken assumption, and finding it is faster than re-teaching a chapter. From there I work from mechanism rather than memorization. If you understand why the loop of Henle concentrates urine, you never need a mnemonic for it. For MCAT and USMLE prep I lean on timed, question-first practice with immediate review of every wrong option, since those exams test reasoning under time pressure more than recall. I am direct, patient, and comfortable with a student who is behind.

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Education

Illinois Wesleyan University
Neuroscience
Davenport University
MBA
Windsor University School of Medicine
MD

Additional Languages

Hindi
Punjabi

Policies

  • Tutor’s lessons: In-person
  • Hourly Rate: $225
  • Travel policy: Within 40 miles of Antioch, IL 60002
  • Lesson cancellation: 1 hours notice required

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Approved Subjects

ADHD

ADHD

My background is in neuroscience and brain injury rather than special education, and that is precisely why I am useful here, because as a Certified Brain Injury Specialist through the Brain Injury Association of America my education work centers on executive function, working memory, attention, task initiation, and cognitive fatigue, which are the same systems ADHD affects. I hold an MD and a bachelor's degree in neuroscience, so I can explain to a student what is actually happening when a task will not start, which for a lot of students is the first time the problem stops feeling like a character flaw. I tutor academic subjects using structures built for attention rather than against it, meaning shorter working blocks, externalized checklists, front-loaded difficulty, and immediate feedback instead of long unbroken study sessions. To be clear about scope, I work here as an educator and not as a treating clinician, so I do not diagnose, manage medication, or provide therapy.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

I am a physician with an MD and an MBA and the parent of two autistic sons, so aided language modeling, AAC, visual schedules, and functional communication are daily practice for me and not just literature I have read. I do know that literature closely, including the Project AIM meta-analyses and the AAC research showing that communication devices do not suppress speech development, and I will tell a family plainly which methods are well supported and which are oversold. My clinical background is in brain injury and cognitive rehabilitation, where the core problem is executive dysfunction, which is the same underlying difficulty behind a great deal of what gets misread as non-compliance in an autistic learner. I am not a BCBA or a speech-language pathologist and I do not provide therapy, what I offer is structured, patient, well-documented learning support built around how your child actually communicates.
Career Development

Career Development

I hold an MD and an MBA in healthcare and I have spent my career on both sides of the hiring table. As a senior director and acting vice president I built and led a seven-person business development team, which meant writing the job descriptions, screening the resumes, running the interviews, setting performance goals, and having the hard conversations when someone was not meeting them. I have also worked as a pharmaceutical medical science liaison, a healthcare consultant, and the founder of several ventures, so I can speak concretely about clinical, corporate, consulting, and entrepreneurial paths instead of offering generic advice. I coach resumes, cover letters, LinkedIn profiles, interview preparation, and salary negotiation, and my bias is toward specificity, because the most common reason a strong candidate gets passed over is that their materials describe responsibilities rather than results.
Executive Functioning

Executive Functioning

I am a physician with an MD and an MBA and a BIAA-certified brain injury specialist, and my clinical work is in post-discharge brain injury recovery, where executive dysfunction is the central problem rather than a side effect of something else. I founded Brain Revives to serve that population, and the most useful thing I have learned is that the size of the ask matters far more than motivation does: a multi-step request that meant going to a website and filling out a form produced no response at all from people who genuinely wanted the material, and replies only began once the ask became a single line. That is the method I teach, which is to shorten the distance between intention and action rather than asking a student to try harder inside a system that was never built for how their brain works. I work on planning, task initiation, working memory, and organization with students who have ADHD, autism, a brain injury, or no diagnosis at all, and I have spent years teaching clinicians and care teams, so I am comfortable explaining the why to a parent as well as running the session with the student.
Fitness

Fitness

I am a physician with an MD and an MBA, and I am writing a book on clinical nutrition and how food changes the way the body absorbs, metabolizes, and responds to medication. My clinical background is in rehabilitation, where the working question is how to return someone to activity safely after an injury rather than how to maximize performance in an already healthy athlete. I teach the underlying science, including energy systems, exercise physiology, macronutrients, the gut microbiome, and how to read a study well enough to tell a real finding from a supplement advertisement. I am not a certified personal trainer and I do not write workout programs, so I am a strong fit for health science, kinesiology, and nutrition coursework or for understanding what is happening in your own body, and a poor fit if you want someone on the gym floor.
Interview Prep

Interview Prep

I am a physician executive with an MD and an MBA who has sat on both sides of the interview table, having built and led a seven-person team and made the hiring calls myself. I am also running my own executive search at volume right now, with well over a hundred roles evaluated, structured scoring on each, and recorded recruiter screens that I turn into written prep documents before the next round, so I coach from a live process rather than from memory. That makes me most useful for medical school and residency interviews, MBA admissions interviews, and healthcare or life sciences job interviews, where I know both what a question is actually testing and what the person asking it writes down afterward. My method is to make you specific, because most candidates lose on vague claims about themselves, and we replace those with the concrete story that proves the claim, told in your voice rather than mine.
MBA

MBA

I hold an MBA and an MD, and I use the MBA daily rather than remembering it, since I founded and run a healthcare consulting firm and work as a healthcare executive. I have built and led a seven-person team, negotiated live commercial agreements with real counterparties, and been quoted in the healthcare trade press on hospital financial turnarounds, so when we work a case I can tell you where the textbook answer and the room diverge. I tutor MBA coursework across strategy, operations, healthcare management, finance fundamentals, and organizational behavior, and I coach admissions essays and interviews. I have written and submitted graduate applications myself and I read them the way an admissions reader does, which is quickly and looking for a reason to stop.
Neuroscience

Neuroscience

My bachelor's degree is in neuroscience, with undergraduate research in visual neuroscience, neuroanatomy, sensory systems, and neuroplasticity, and I went on to earn an MD. I spent four years as a research fellow in interventional pain and neuroscience, producing three MEDLINE-indexed peer-reviewed publications including work on EEG activity during spinal cord stimulation. I am a Certified Brain Injury Specialist through the Brain Injury Association of America and I founded a brain injury education platform, so I teach neuroscience as a living clinical field rather than a static syllabus. I have taught this material to undergraduates, medical students, and practicing neurologists, and I adjust the depth to the audience without diluting the mechanism.
Nutrition

Nutrition

I am a physician with an MD and an MBA, and I am writing a book on clinical nutrition and pharmacology, specifically how food changes the absorption, metabolism, and effect of medication. That work has taken me deep into the gut microbiome, drug and nutrient interaction, macronutrient and micronutrient biochemistry, and the well-documented nutrition education gap in medical training, including conversations about clinical nutrition with the people who deliver it at commercial scale. I teach the science rather than sell a diet, which means metabolism, energy balance, biochemistry, reading a label, and reading a study well enough to see where the effect size actually sits. I am not a registered dietitian and I do not write individual meal plans or manage medical conditions, so I am a strong fit for nutrition science, biochemistry, and dietetics coursework and for anyone who wants to genuinely understand the evidence.
Personal Statements

Personal Statements

I am a published author with three MEDLINE-indexed peer-reviewed papers and a book to my name, and I have worked for years as a freelance senior medical writer developing manuscripts, systematic reviews, and clinical summaries for publication, including co-creating a medical writing style guide. I hold an MD and an MBA, so I have personally written and submitted the medical school and graduate school applications my students are working on now, and I know what those essays are actually screened for. I have also spent years on the reading side as a senior executive who built and led a seven-person team, which is where you learn how quickly a generic opening loses a reader. I coach for structure and specificity first, pushing a student to replace a claim about themselves with the concrete story that proves it, and I never rewrite a student's voice into mine.
Project Management

Project Management

I am a physician executive with an MD, an MBA, and Lean Six Sigma training, and I run a healthcare consulting firm where project management is the actual job rather than a subject I once studied. I have built and led a seven-person team, scoped and delivered client engagements end to end, and shipped working products including a live decision-support tool I use as a client-facing asset, so I teach scope, stakeholders, risk, dependencies, and status reporting from projects that went well and projects that slipped. I tutor project management coursework and the underlying frameworks, including waterfall, agile, and hybrid approaches, along with process improvement methods such as DMAIC, value stream mapping, and root cause analysis. I am not a certified PMP and I do not teach to the exam blueprint, so if you need exam-specific drilling I am the wrong choice, and if you need to actually run projects I am a good one.
Public Speaking

Public Speaking

I am a physician executive with an MD and an MBA who has spent years teaching clinicians, students, and cross-functional healthcare teams, which is the hardest room there is, because that audience is busy, skeptical, and will not pretend to follow you out of politeness. I present findings to clients as a consultant, I have been quoted in the healthcare trade press, and I build the decks and talk tracks behind those presentations myself, so I teach structure and delivery as one problem rather than two. Most speakers fail on structure rather than nerves, so I start with what you are actually claiming and in what order, then move to the delivery habits that undercut it, including pace, filler, and the apologetic opening. I coach class presentations, thesis and residency talks, grand rounds and conference style talks, and professional presentations where the audience has to decide something at the end.
USMLE

USMLE

I hold an MD and completed clinical rotations across Chicago-area teaching hospitals, so Step 1,2, and 3 content is material I learned in full and then used in a hospital setting rather than only on paper. My undergraduate degree is in neuroscience and I spent three years as a medical science liaison in neurology, presenting clinical trial data and pharmacology to practicing neurologists across five states, which means the neuroscience, CNS pharmacology, and pathophysiology sections that sink most Step 1 scores are exactly what I have taught to physicians. I teach from mechanism rather than mnemonics, and for board preparation I work question-first, using timed blocks and a full review of every wrong distractor instead of only the correct answer. I have three MEDLINE-indexed publications, so I can also walk a student through the primary literature that a question stem is built on.
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