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Jon Tilburt obtained his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Yale University in 1995. He graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1999. Upon completing his training internal medicine training at the University of Michigan in 2002, he enrolled in the Greenwall Fellowship, which included experience as a visiting legislative fellow for health in the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. He combined this experience with an NIH-funded health services research fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine which included a master of public health degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
His research interests focus on social and ethical aspects of translating scientific evidence into clinical practice. In the fall of 2005 he accepted a two-year Staff Scientist position the NIH Department of Clinical Bioethics and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine where he conducted empirical and conceptual studies on social and ethical aspects of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), focusing on ethical aspects of translating CAM research evidence into clinical practice. There he conducted "Provider Perceptions of CAM Research" – a national survey of alternative and conventional provider ’s views of research evidence. On November 1, 2007 he joined the division of General Internal Medicine and the Bioethics Research Program at the Mayo Clinic.