Patrick A. Lento, M.D., was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Following his medical degree, Dr. Lento completed residencies and was board certified in both internal medicine and pathology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC. He 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 II director for the new 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

• M.D., Georgetown University School of Medicine
• Residency, Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center
• Residency, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical Center
• Internship, Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center
• Fellowship, Surgical Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical Center

Honors and Awards

• 2022: NYMC SOM Dean’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching

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

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Teaching Responsibilities

• Pathology-Pathophysiology Course 1 and Course 2