Hilliard (‘Hill’) Jason

Hilliard (‘Hill’) Jason is one of the most influential innovators in medical education.  With his wife, Jane Westberg  PhD, Hill has co-authored seven academic books on aspects of teaching and learning in the health professions, and has co-authored and hosted more than 60 widely distributed video programs on medical education in the health professions.Since the mid-1950s “Hill” has spent his career seeking ways to help enhance and humanize medical education and practice in the health professions. He is the first person known to have pursued medical and educational doctorates simultaneously. He designed and conducted the two largest, multi-institutional studies of medical teaching ever done. Since 1990 Hill has been Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Jason has presented keynote addresses, offered workshops and/or been a consultant on aspects of education in the health professions in 42 countries