Marci received his B.A. in psychology at Columbia University, M.A. in psychology and philosophy at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and then completed his M.D. at Harvard Medical School. He had further training in biometrics and the neuroscience of emotion through two National Institute of Health fellowships. His early work focused on physiologic concordance or synchrony between patients and doctors as an indicator of empathy. One study, published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease found a relationship between high levels of physiologic concordance and empathy in a clinical population.
Business career
Dr. Carl Marci is currently the Chief Medical Officer for , a digital health technology company with a clinically-proven platform for proactive mobile mental health monitoring, dedicated to preventing mental health episodes. Dr. Marci, a founding member and previous Senior Scientific Advisor to the company, leads and manages on-going clinical research to deliver objective measures that improve clinical support and patient outcomes. Prior to joining CompanionMx, Inc.™, Marci co-founded Innerscope Research in 2006. From 2008 to 2013, he served as CEO. In 2015, Innerscope Research was acquired by Nielsen. After that, he became Chief Neuroscientist for Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience. The firm is a provider of consumer based neuroscience using using electroencephalography, biometrics, and other technologies for measuring non-conscious processes related to media and marketing. His work there on researching the emotions of Super Bowl advertising have been featured nationally on Good Morning America, CNN, and MSNBC. Marci is also the Chairperson of the Board of Advisors and a member of the Executive Committee for the Endowment for the Advancement of Psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Other accomplishments
Marci has presented at conferences sponsored by the Advertising Research Foundation, Association of National Advertisers, the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, the WorldAdvertising Research Conference, ESOMAR, and the Festival of Media Global Event. He has published articles in peer-reviewed science journals, and was a guest editor of Media Magazine and the International Journal of Advertising Special Issue on Advertising and the Brain. Marci is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and a 2014 Henry Crown Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Marketing Technology Trailblazer by AdAge.
