Jennifer E Posey, MD, PhD

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Jennifer Posey, MD, PhD, is the chief of the Division of Clinical Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics and the inaugural chief genomics officer of Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CGO-CUIMC). She received her MD and PhD degrees from Baylor College of Medicine. After completing her residency in medicine at Columbia, she served as faculty and an attending physician for 10 years at Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics. Her professional interests focus on medical genetics and research genetics. She has an interest in pediatric clinical genetics and genomic medicine. She is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards including the American Society for Human Genetics Early Career Award and the American Society for Clinical Investigation Young Physician-Scientist Award. She is widely recognized for her 2017 New England Journal of Medicine paper, “Resolution of Disease Phenotypes Resulting from Multilocus Genomic Variation, ” which opened the door to the next wave of genetic disease explanation and etiology.