Marisa Nucci MD

Dr. Marisa Nucci is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Chair and Director of the Division of Women's and Perinatal Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, USA. She also serves as a Consultant Pathologist for the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, where she is an Associate Member of the Gynecologic Cancer and Sarcoma Programs.

Dr. Nucci was born in Newark, NJ. She did her undergraduate training at Haverford College and medical training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, and completed an AP residency as well as the Women’s and Perinatal Pathology Fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has been on staff at the Brigham and Women's Hospital since 1996. She is the recipient of the Pier Paci Teaching Award and the Distinguished Clinician Award at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.

She is the past president of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society and serves on the editorial boards of The International Journal of Gynecologic Pathology and The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. She is an active member of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, where she served on the Education Committee (2011-2017), was Chair of the Subcommittee for Unique Live Course Offerings (2012-2017), was a member of the Board of Directors (2016-2019), and is currently a member of the Executive Committee. She is also President-elect for the International Society of Gynecologic Pathology. She is the co-editor of three widely read major gynecologic pathology textbooks: Diagnostic Gynecologic and Obstetric Pathology, edited by Drs. Crum, Nucci, and Lee; Gynecologic Pathology. A Volume in the Series Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology edited by Drs. Nucci and Parra-Herran, and Diagnostic Pathology Gynecological, edited by Drs. Nucci and Oliva.