Personal Biography
Marc D. Foca, MD, is Attending Physician, Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His clinical focus is on transplant infectious diseases.
In 1986, Dr. Foca received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Johns Hopkins University. He then attended Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, where he received his Doctor of Medicine in 1995. Dr. Foca began his postgraduate training in 1995 with a three-year internship and residency at Babies and Children’s Hospital at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He then completed a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Columbia University in 2001.
His research focuses on the clinical aspects of immunosuppressed pediatric patients,including those with HIV and organ transplants. Dr. Foca’s work has been shared at national invited lectures and international expert panels and published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, books and abstracts.
Dr. Foca has been named one of Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors in pediatric infectious diseases from 2014 to 2020. He is board certified in pediatric infectious diseases and a member of numerous professional societies, including the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the American Society of Transplantation.