Professor Edward Hillhouse
Chief Policy Advisor on Academic Health Systems, Managing Director’s Office, HMC
Professor Edward Hillhouse is Chief Policy Advisor on Academic Health Systems at Hamad Medical Corporation. Prior to this he was Professor of Medicine at the University of Leeds where he held senior academic posts as Dean of the School of Medicine, Faculty Dean of Medicine and Health and Dean for International Development. He has also served as Non-Executive Director on the board of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the largest hospitals in the UK with 3,000 beds.
He is a consultant endocrinologist and diabetologist with special expertise in metabolic bone disease and pituitary disorders. He is an internationally recognized clinical scientist and is ranked in the top 5 percent of cited authors in biology and biochemistry (Thompson Reuters). His most influential work has been in the role of stress in health and disease. He has extensive experience of translational clinical research and clinical trials. Under his leadership the Faculty of Medicine at Leeds was transformed with a new vision and strategy that led to the creation of several major interdisciplinary research institutes housed in new buildings.
He has also held the post of Foundation Professor of Medicine and Director of the Molecular Medicine Research Centre at the University of Warwick where he established the Medical Research Institute and laid the foundations for biomedical and clinical research. He helped to lead the successful bid to establish a graduate school of medicine at Warwick and was the Chairman of the School of Postgraduate Medicine. He has served two terms as a member of the HEFCE (Higher Education Council for England) Leadership, Governance and Management strategic committee and led the development of a new program for academic leadership across the higher education/clinical interface in conjunction with HEFCE and the Medical Schools Council. He is a founder member and Consulting Director of the International Association of Academic Health Centres (AAHC International) and is passionate about the role of Academic Health Centers as vehicles for innovation and health improvement.
Prof. Hillhouse graduated in Medicine from St. Thomas’s Hospital in London (King’s College) where he also studied for his PhD He undertook general professional training in Oxford, London and Southampton before completing specialist training in the New England Medical Centre (Boston, USA) and King’s College Hospital, London. He has extensive international experience in the USA, Australia, the Middle East, India, Central and South America, Africa, Europe and the Far East.
