Dr. Marcella Farinelli Fierro (born 1941) is a medical examiner and forensic pathologist.
Fierro decided to pursue a Doctor of Medicine in forensic pathology at the State of University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine after she graduated cum laude in biology from D’Youville College in Buffalo, New York in 1962.
After earning her degree in 1966, Fierro pursued an internship and residency at Ottawa Civic Hospital in Ontario, Canada followed by residencies in pathology at the Cleveland (Ohio) Clinic Educational Foundation and at Virginia Commonwealth University.
[1] Fierro became chief resident in Pathology at the Virginia Commonwealth University and held a fellowship in forensic pathology in the Department of Legal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond from 1973 to 1974.
[2] Fierro served as a staff pathologist at Richmond's Medical College of Virginia Hospitals from 1975 to 1992 and then returned to academia as a professor of pathology at East Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville from 1992 to 1994.