Josh Peterson, MD, MPH
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Josh Peterson is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine in the School of Medicine, the Director of the Center for Precision Medicine, and Vice-President for Personalized Health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Peterson received his medical degree through the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1997 and completed an Internal Medicine residency at Duke University Medical Center, a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a Master of Public Health degree at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Peterson’s research interests are in precision medicine with a focus on population genomic screening and translation of genomic technologies to routine clinical care. He currently serves as PI of the eMERGE Network coordinating center which aims to return integrated genomic risk to a large primary care population.
Secondly, he co-leads studies of the use of pharmacogenomics to guide treatment of pain and depression within the IGNITE Pragmatic Clinical Trial Network. Additionally, he leads the Rational Integration of Sequencing (RISE) Network which is developing decision analytic models to estimate the clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of performing sequencing across large populations. Dr. Peterson was the founding Program Director for the Masters of Applied Clinical Informatics (MSACI) program and currently directs the Vanderbilt Genomic Medicine training program.