Jonathan Mosley Appointed Director of Population Genetics & Informatics

Dr. Jonathan Mosley, an Associate Professor of Medicine and Bioinformatics at Vanderbilt University, has accepted an appointment as Director of the Program in Population Genetics and Informatics for the Department of Internal Medicine, effective April 2025.

An accomplished investigator with expertise at the intersection of bioinformatics, clinical informatics, genetics, and epidemiology, Dr. Mosley has provided novel clinical insights regarding the utility of genetics in disease screening, diagnosis, identification of clinical inequities, and drug selection. In addition to publishing extensively in high-impact journals, he has had continuous NIH and AHA funding throughout his career.

"His work has provided novel clinical insights regarding the utility of genetics in disease screening, diagnosis, identifying clinical inequities, and drug selection," says Thomas Wang, M.D., Professor and Chair of Internal Medicine. "He is also an internist who specializes in hypertension, so we look forward to him contributing clinically to the hypertension section at UT Southwestern."

Originally from Bangladesh, Dr. Mosley holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He earned a master’s degree in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and his M.D./Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He then completed internal medicine residency training at Vanderbilt University, followed by a clinical fellowship.

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Dr. Wang holds the Donald W. Seldin Distinguished Chair in Internal Medicine.