Alexandra N. LeFevre, MS
- Academic Title: Instructor
- Primary Appointment: Pediatrics
- Email: alefevre@som.umaryland.edu
- Phone (Primary): 4107066913
Education and Training
•2011 B.A., Anthropology (Human Biology track), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
•2014 M.S., Medical Pathology, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Biosketch
Alexandra LeFevre is an ASCP-certified Pathologist's Assistant who completed her training here at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Graduate School. She worked in anatomical pathology labs at hospitals in the Baltimore-Washington area before returning to the University as faculty in 2016. Ms. LeFevre is currently a tissue coordinator in the department of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland Brain and Tissue Bank where she procures and distributes brain and other tissues for neuroscience research.
Research/Clinical Keywords
neuropathology, neurology, developmental disorders, SUID, Autism, Epilepsy, Huntington's Disease, Dementia, Parkinson's Disease, Lewy Body Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Down Syndrome, Multiple Systems Atrophy, ALS
Highlighted Publications
Bargar C, Wang W, Gunzler SA, LeFevre A, Wang Z, Lerner AJ, Singh N, Tatsuoka C, Appleby B, Zhu X, Xu R, Haroutunian V, Zou WQ, Ma J, Chen SG. Streamlined alpha-synuclein RT-QuIC assay for various biospecimens in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2021 Apr 7;9(1):62. doi: 10.1186/s40478-021-01175-w. PMID: 33827706; PMCID: PMC8028088.
Helman G, Zerem A, Almad A, Hacker JL, Woidill S, Sase S, LeFevre AN, Ekstein J, Johansson MM, Stutterd CA, Taft RJ, Simons C, Grinspan JB, Pizzino A, Schmidt JL, Harding B, Hirsch Y, Viaene AN, Fattal-Valevski A, Vanderver A. Further Delineation of the Clinical and Pathologic Features of HIKESHI-Related Hypomyelinating Leukodystrophy. Pediatr Neurol. 2021 Aug;121:11-19. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2021.04.014. Epub 2021 May 14. PMID: 34111619; PMCID: PMC8327280.