Marc Foca, MD

Dr. Foca graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School with an MD in 1995. He subsequently completed internship and residency in Pediatrics at Babies Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center. He remained for fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and upon completion became the Clinical Director of the Pediatric HIV Clinic and a member of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, where he remained for 20 years, until moving to the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx.   His early publications were in conjunction with the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG), the Women and Infant Transmission Study (WITS) and the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) group. For 12 years, he was a member of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV Infection.  Upon transition to Montefiore, Dr. Foca became the Clinical Director of the Transplant and Immunocompromised Service. His work and research focuses mainly on pediatric patients with solid organ transplants, stem cell transplants, CAR-T therapy, and gene therapy.