Marco M. Hefti, MD
Assistant Professor
Department
Pathology
Biography
Introduction
I am a neuropathologist with a particular interest in pediatric and fetal neuropathology. I graduated from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2008. I completed two years of general surgery residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston before doing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. I then did a residency in anatomic pathology at Beth Israel before moving to Mount Sinai to do my neuropathology fellowship.
Current Positions
- Assistant Professor of Pathology
Education
- BA in Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
- Postbaccalaureate in Pre-medical, Columbia University, New York
- MD in Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City
- Resident in Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston, Massachusetts
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Surgery/Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Resident in Anatomic Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston, Massachusetts
- Chief Resident in Anatomic Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston, Massachusetts
- Fellow in Neuropathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
Graduate Program Affiliations
Center, Program and Institute Affiliations
Research Interests
- Microtubule-associated proteins in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic injury.
- Role of the tau protein in human brain development
- Aberrant tau splicing in the pathogenesis of cognitive dysfunction in myotonic dystrophy
Licenses & Certifications
- Diplomate in Neuropathology, American Board of Pathology
- Iowa Board of Medicine, Iowa, United States
- Diplomate in Anatomic Pathology, American Board of Pathology
Research areas
- Cellular and molecular neuroscience
- Clinical neuroscience
- Structural and trafficking proteins
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Stem cells
- Cell culturing
- Neuropathology
