Brain Donation

Dr. Hefti is Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Iowa and directs the Iowa Brain Bank. He received his MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and did his pathology training at Harvard Medical School in Boston before returning to Mount Sinai for his neuropathology fellowship. While at Mount Sinai, he worked in the laboratory of Dr. John Crary, an expert in the neuropathology of neurodegenerative disease. He works closely with Dr. Nopoulos to identify neuropathological correlates of the structural changes seen in her imaging studies and has a particular interest in the role of the tau protein in Huntington’s disease.