Dr. Cynthia Magro is a professor of pathology at the Weill College of Medicine, Cornell University. Dr. Magro, a native of Canada, received all her post graduate medical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in anatomic pathology, cytopathology and dermatopathology. Dr. Magro is internationally known in the field of dermatopathology, having co-authored approximately 170 peer reviewed papers, several book chapters and the award winning text book the Melanocytic Proliferation. She has just completed the Cutaneous Lymphoid Proliferation a 24 chapter self authored comprehensive text book on benign and neoplastic cutaneous lymphocytic infiltrates. She and her two colleagues Dr.Mihm and Dr. Crowson have given international courses in the areas of inflammatory skin pathology and difficult melanocytic proliferations for the American Academy of Dermatology,United States Academy for pathologists and American Society of clinical pathology.
Dr, Magro?s expertise has focused on complex inflammatory skin disease including cutaneous manifestations of autoimmune disease, systemic viral disease and vasculitis, immunofluorescence, atypical drug reactions, benign, atypical and overtly neoplastic lymphocytic infiltrates of skin and problematic melanocytic proliferations. A significant part of work has focused on the skin as a critical window to understand mechanisms involved in internal disease which has lead to a number of publications in the areas of lung transplantation and interstitial lung disease with a focus of immune based microvascular injury in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis. She was recently appointed the co-chair for pathobiology by the international Heart and Lung Transplantation Society for her work on humoral rejection of the lung.
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