The medical school will welcome Betty Diamond, MD, in September as the featured speaker for Seminars in Investigative Medicine.
Dr. Diamond’s presentation, “Neuropsychiatric lupus: a tractable and urgent clinical problem,” is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, in TBL 1 at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus in downtown Kalamazoo. A pizza lunch from Jets will be provided for attendees.
The event is free and MEDU and CE credit is available. For more information about CE credit, please go to https://bit.ly/3UEVTve.
If you plan to attend, please register here. Individuals who RSVP will be admitted before those without a reservation.
Dr. Diamond is director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine and the Maureen and Ralph Nappi Professor of Autoimmune Diseases at Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and director of the PhD program at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. She earned her MD degree from Harvard Medical School, completed her residency in internal medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and received postdoctoral training in immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Currently, Dr. Diamond’s lab studies DNA-reactive B cells in the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus, according to the Feinstein Institutes’ website. Her team is interested in the alterations within B cells that lead to the survival and activation of DNA-reactive B cells and in the alterations in other cells of the immune system that affect B cell function and can also lead to the survival and activation of DNA-reactive B cells.
Seminars in Investigative Medicine is a research seminar series at WMed aimed at bringing together the community of investigators both within – and outside — the medical school.