Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and ImmunologyProfessor, Medicine School of Medicine
Board-certified in internal medicine and pathology, Patrick A. Lento, M.D., joined New York Medical College in 2012 and currently serves as the director of the Pathology-Pathophysiology Teaching Program for the medical school. More recently, Dr. Lento was appointed Phase I director for the SOM UME curriculum. In addition to his role as an educator, he also holds an appointment as a staff attending in the Department of Pathology at Westchester Medical Center.
Education
- Fellowship, Surgical Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Residency, Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Residency, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Internship, Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center
- M.D., Georgetown University School of Medicine
Honors and Awards
- NYMC SOM Dean’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2022
Publications
- Huang W, Yin C, Lento PA, et. al. "Differential Deep RNA Sequencing for Diagnostic Detection of Microbial Infections in Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy." Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine, 17(4), (2024) e004487. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.123.004487
- Hernandez PV, Razzano D, Riddle ND, et. al. "Measuring the Efficacy of Pathology Career Recruitment Strategies in US Medical Students." Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine, 146(4), (2022) 494-500. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2020-0834-OA
- Li B, Lento PA, Pan S, et. al. "Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy: Case-based Review on Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis, and Management." Cardiology in review, 29(5), (2021) 230-237. doi: 10.1097/CRD.0000000000000369
- Yoon EC, Vail E, Kleinman G, et. al. "Lyme disease: a case report of a 17-year-old male with fatal Lyme carditis." Cardiovascular pathology : the official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology, 24(5), (2015) 317-21. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2015.03.003
- Ward TJ, Jacobi AH, Mendelson DS, et. al. "AIRP best cases in radiologic-pathologic correlation: cardiac echinococcus infection." Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc, 33(5), (2013) 1413-8. doi: 10.1148/rg.335125209
- Purushothaman KR, Purushothaman M, Levy AP, et. al. "Increased expression of oxidation-specific epitopes and apoptosis are associated with haptoglobin genotype: possible implications for plaque progression in human atherosclerosis." Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 60(2), (2012) 112-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.04.011
- Purushothaman KR, Purushothaman M, Muntner P, et. al. "Inflammation, neovascularization and intra-plaque hemorrhage are associated with increased reparative collagen content: implication for plaque progression in diabetic atherosclerosis." Vascular medicine (London, England), 16(2), (2011) 103-8. doi: 10.1177/1358863X11402249
Teaching Responsibilities
- Pathology-Pathophysiology Course 1 and Course 2
