About Dr. George Hill

George C. Hill, Ph.D. is the Levi Watkins, Jr. Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity in Medical Education at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He has primary responsibility for stimulating and coordinating efforts to increase diversity at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is also continuing his research as a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

Dr. Hill received his Ph.D. from New York University working on the electron transport systems in African trypanosomes with Dr. Seymour Hutner. He was an NIH Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge Great Britain in 1972 prior to joining the faculty at Colorado State University where he established a funded research program on the molecular biology and biochemistry of differentiation in African trypanosomes. He was a Fulbright Fellow to the University of Nairobi, Nairobi Kenya in 1982 and was jogging during a coup attempt. In 1983, Dr. Hill joined the faculty at Meharry Medical College where he served in several administrative positions including Director of the Division of Biomedical Sciences, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research, and Vice President for Sponsored Research and also continued his research. NIH, NSF, and the Department of the Army have funded Dr. Hill's research. He was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1998 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2002. He was selected a "Giant in Science" for his efforts to motivate minority students into biomedical research.

He enjoys his four children Yvette, Kevin, Nicole and Brian, grandchildren Spencer, Tiassa, Isabelle, and Alexandra, jogging, and traveling throughout the world with his wife Linda. He competed (a generous description) in the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta. He and Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General and President of Meharry Medical College once jogged from one country to another and back.