Nephi Walton, MD
Associate Medical Director of Precision Genomics Intermountain Healthcare
Dr. Walton completed his MD and Masters in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He completed a combined residency in Pediatrics and Genetics at Washington University in St Louis and is boarded in both clinical genetics and clinical informatics. He led several research initiatives in genomics and informatics at Geisinger prior to joining Intermountain Healthcare. At Geisinger he successfully completed a pilot integration of genomics data into the EPIC electronic health record system for both pharmacogenomics and CDC tier one genetic conditions. He currently serves as the Associate Medical Director of Intermountain Precision Genomics and also serves as the Associate Medical Director of Intermountain’s genome sequencing laboratory. He is the Chair of Genomics and Translational Bioinformatics for the American Medical Informatics Association and has presented extensively on integrating genomic information into the medical record and translating the use of genomics into general medical practice. He is currently actively pursuing both of these interests at Intermountain Healthcare where he leads the return of genetic results for the Heredigene
