Deborah Gutman, MD, MPH is a practicing emergency physician with 25 years of experience in clinical practice at top academic medical centers. She trained at and served in a number of leadership and teaching roles at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, including program director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program and has won several teaching and patient satisfaction awards. She is current faculty and pre health advisor at the Brown Gateways Master of Science in Medical Sciences Program. For the last 10 years she has been the sole proprietor of a successful advising practice providing individualized advising for students planning to attend medical school, PA school, and residency programs. She has spoken at numerous national conferences on medical schools admission and is author of several publications in medical education.