
Joseph A. Hill PhD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Joseph Hill is Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology, Chief of Cardiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and Director of the Harry S. Moss Heart Center. He was graduated from Duke University with MD and PhD degrees in 1987. His PhD dissertation research was in the field cardiac ion channel biophysics. Dr. Hill then worked for 5 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut Pasteur in Paris studying central and peripheral nicotinic receptors. In 1992, he moved to Boston where he worked as an Intern and Resident in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. This was followed by training as a clinical Cardiology fellow at those same institutions. Dr. Hill worked at the University of Iowa from 1997-2002, where his clinical interests centered on cardiomyopathies and lipid management. He moved to UT Southwestern in the fall of 2002. Dr. Hill’s research examines molecular mechanisms of structural, functional, and electrophysiological remodeling in cardiac hypertrophy and failure.
Appearances
- DateJanuary 18, 2018 12:00 AMOne in four women will die of heart disease, making it the #1 killer of women by far (in comparison one in 40 women will die of breast cancer). Many cardiologists don’t know this. Many practitioners outside the cardiac field don’t know it…
Moderators
Joseph A. Hill, PhDUT Southwestern Medical CenterLeslie A. Leinwand, PhDUniversity of Colorado BoulderPanelists
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, PhDUniversity Medicine BerlinDavid C. Page, PhDWhitehead Institute for Biomedical ResearchCarolyn Lam, PhDDuke-NUS Medical SchoolFreeStandard Price