Robert Homer

Historically, Robert Homer’s major interests have been in diagnostic and experimental lung pathology. He was lead thoracic pathologist at Yale from 2004 to 2022 and has experience in diagnosing and classifying the full range of histopathology of clinical lung disease. He was also director of Anatomic Pathology at VA Connecticut HealthCare system (West Haven VA) from 1994 to 2022.

Dr. Homer’s PhD was on aspects of the murine MHC, and his postdoctoral fellowship was with Richard Flavell on development of T-cell tolerance. Since then, he has helped evaluate various murine models of inflammatory lung disease, run an NIH-funded morphology core for the Yale pulmonary section, and led a basic laboratory at West Haven VA studying murine models of pulmonary fibrosis. He now mostly consults on various experimental models of lung disease and works with collaborators analyzing human fibrotic and neoplastic disease.

He is heavily involved in medical school curriculum development as the director of Medical Education for Pathology and is co-director of the pre-clerkship YSM course Attacks and Defenses (covering immunology, infectious disease, microbiology, rheumatology, and dermatology). One of his major current interests is exploring the use of Large Language Models in medical education.