Betty Diamond, M.D.

Head, The Center for Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Disease The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore LIJ – Health Systems

Title: Establishing the B cell repertoire

Biography:

Betty Diamond received an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1973.  She performed a residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and then a post-doctoral fellowship in Immunology with Dr. Matthew Scharff at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  She has been the faculty at Einstein and Columbia and is currently Head of The Center for Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Disease at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Diamond’s primary interests are in the mechanisms of central and peripheral tolerance of autoreactive B cells, and the defects in these mechanisms that are present in autoimmune disease, and the role of antibodies in brain disease.