Faculty

Education

• M.D.

Internship

• Surgery, Yale-New Haven, 1960

Residency

• Pathology, NYU-Bellevue, 1961-3

Fellowship

• Pathology, NYU-Bellevue, 1963-65

Specialty

• Pediatric Pathology

Board Certification

• Am Bd Pathology, Anatomic, 1965
• Pediatric 1990

Area of Interest

• Liver and Gastrointestinal diseases of children and animal models of human disease

Current Position

• Head, Department of Pathology, Texas Children's Hospital

Other Positions

• Associate Chair, Department of Pathology

Honors and Awards

• Farber-Landing Lecturer, Society for Pediatric Pathology, 2003
• Spjut Lecturer, Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists, 2005
• Past-President, SPP and Hans Popper Societies

Membership on professional organizations

• American Society for Investigative Pathology
• US-Canadian Academy of Pathology
• American Association for the Study of Liver
• Society for Pediatric Pathology
• Society for Pediatric Research
• Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society

Representative Publications

1. Huster D et al. Consequences of copper accumulation in the livers of the Atp7b-/- (Wilson disease gene) knockout mice. Am J Pathol. 2006 168: 423
2. Wang X, et al. Cell fusion is the principal source of bone-marrow –derived hepatocytes. Nature 2003; 422: 897
3. Finegold MJ. Chemotherapy for suspected hepatoblastoma without efforts at surgical resection is a bad practice. Med Pediatrc Oncol 2002; 39: 484
4. Finegold MJ. Common diagnostic problems in Pediatric liver pathology. Clin Liver Dis 2002; 6: 421
5. Brotto M and Finegold MJ. Distinct Patterns of p27/KIP 1 gene expression in Hepatoblastoma and prognostic implications with correlation before and after chemotherapy. Human Pathol 2002; 33: 195