On July 5, 2011 he was elected Dean of the Medical School (Doyen de la Faculté de médecine) at Université Saint-Joseph.

His main interests are philosophy, theology,history and linguistics.

Prof. Tomb is the author of hundreds of papers published in international journals, books and chapter of books.

He has recently presented a Ph.D. thesis on the ethics of circumcision to be published in 2013.

Roland Tomb is the father of four children: Marie, Clara, Bérénice and Olivier.