D. Hunter Best

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 and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Pathology - Primary
    Pediatrics - Adjunct

  • 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 -Primary
    Pediatrics -Adjunct

    Research interests

    • Gene Discovery in Rare Disease
    • Molecular Genetics
    • Genetics of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Education history

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