Josh Peterson, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, in the School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University.   Dr. Peterson research interests are in precision medicine with a focus on clinical decision support to improve drug safety and efficacy, and the translation of genomic technologies to routine clinical care.   He has led the design and implementation of multiple clinical decision support systems oriented towards geriatric patients, the critically ill, patients with acute and chronic kidney disease, and most recently for patients tested within a large pharmacogenomics implementation – PREDICT.  He currently leads development and evaluation of PREDICT, and serves as a principle investigator for an NIH Common Fund project to simulate the clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of performing genomic panel testing across large populations over their lifetime.   He is also active within a variety of NIH sponsored research consortia including, eMERGE where he co-Chairs the Outcomes workgroup, and IGNITE where he chairs the Clinical Informatics Interest Group.  Dr. Peterson is the Program Director for the Masters of Applied Clinical Informatics (MSACI) which trains physicians and other health professionals in the field of Clinical Informatics.

Dr. Peterson received his M.D. 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 Masters of Public Health degree at the Harvard School of Public Health.