Dr. Tomer was appointed as the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in October 2023. Dr. Tomer received his M.D. degree from the Sackler School of Medicine. He is a board-certified endocrinologist, and previously served as Chief of Endocrinology at Mount Sinai. Dr. Tomer joined Montefiore Einstein in 2016 as Chair of the Department of medicine. Dr. Tomer has an active research lab studying the immunogenetic, epigenetic, and environmental mechanisms causing thyroid autoimmunity, and type 1 diabetes. His lab made several important discoveries including: discovery that CD40 is a major gene for autoimmune thyroid disease; identification of an HLA-DR amino acid signature that is associated with both autoimmune diabetes and thyroiditis; and more recently discovery of a compound that can block antigen presentation and prevent autoimmune thyroiditis in mouse models. Dr. Tomer published over 200 manuscripts and book chapters; he is frequently invited nationally and internationally to give lectures about his research; and he served on the editorial boards of several journals. Dr. Tomer is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is the recipient of several awards recognizing his research accomplishments. Most recently, the American Thyroid Association presented Dr. Tomer with the 2023 Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Lectureship Award in recognition of his major contributions to thyroid-related research over many years.