D. Hunter Best
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D. Hunter Best, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Dr. Best is a medical director of Molecular Genetics and Genomics at ARUP and a professor of clinical pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Best received his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pathology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a fellowship in Clinical Molecular Genetics at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville. His research focuses on the genetics of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Specialties

  • Clinical Scientist
  • Pathology

Board Certification

American Board of Medical Genetics (Clinical Molecular Genetics)

Dr. Best is a medical director of Molecular Genetics and Genomics at ARUP and a professor of clinical pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Best received his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pathology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a fellowship in Clinical Molecular Genetics at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville. His research focuses on the genetics of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pathology -Professor (Clinical)
Pediatrics -Adjunct Assistant Professor
Academic Divisions Medical Genetics
Board Certification
American Board of Medical Genetics (Clinical Molecular Genetics)

Education history

Undergraduate Biochemistry - North Carolina State University B.S.
Doctoral Training Molecular and Cellular Pathology - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ph.D.
Fellowship Clinical Molecular Genetics - Vanderbilt University Clinical Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. O'Fallon B, Durtschi J, Kellogg A, Lewis T, Close D, Best (2022). Algorithmic improvements for discovery of germline copy number variants in next-generation sequencing data. BMC bioinformatics, 23(1), 285.
  2. Reiley J, Botas P, Miller CE, Zhao J, Malone Jenkins S, Best H, Grubb PH, Mao R, Isla J, Brunelli (2023). Open-Source Artificial Intelligence System Supports Diagnosis of Mendelian Diseases in Acutely Ill Infants. Children (Basel, Switzerland), 10(6),