Biography
Dr. Cynthia Magro is professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University and director of the comprehensive dermatopathology service of the Weill Medical College located in upper east side of Manhattan. Dr. Magro received her training at Harvard medical School. She is internationally known in dermatopathology, having co-authored over 200 papers, several book chapters and three textbooks the Melanocytic Proliferation, the Cutaneous Lymphoid proliferation, and Cutaneous Biopsy Interpretation and is an co-editor on the Barnhill Textbook of Dermatopathology. Her expertise has focused on the pathologic assessment of cutaneous autoimmune disease, viral disease, immunofluorescence, drug reactions, benign, atypical and neoplastic lymphocytic infiltrates of the skin and problematic melanocytic proliferations. In addition she has expertise in the area of non-neoplastic lung disease where she has functioned as the senior author on several papers in the areas of pulmonary vasculitis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and lung transplantation. She has also developed a novel approach to the evaluation of non-neoplastic inflammatory lung disease via direct immunofluorescent techiniques which has been published in the new 2008 book Pulmonary Pathology(Churchill Liningstone). She currently runs the non-neoplastic lung service at the Weill Medical College and New York Hospital.
