Betty Diamond
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 and Chief of Rheumatology at both 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. She has been on the Board of the American College of Rheumatology, is past president of the American Association of Immunology and is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
