Jonathan S. Berg, MD, PhD has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor in the Departments of Genetics and Medicine, effective July 1, 2019.
Dr. Berg earned his PhD in 2001 and his MD in 2003 from UNC Chapel Hill followed by a residency in Clinical Genetics (2007) and a postdoctoral fellowship (2009) at Baylor College of Medicine. He joined the UNC Departments of Genetics and Medicine as an Assistant Professor in July 2009 and was granted tenure as an Associate Professor in July 2015. Dr. Berg currently serves as the Director for the Adult and Cancer Genetics Clinic and for the Program in Precision Medicine in Healthcare. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and serves as a co-PI on two large consortium grants, ClinGen and NCGENES2. He also serves as a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, and the Executive Committee for the Computational Medicine Program.