Insight Matters
Summer, 2001

Hillard leads UC Department of Psychiatry

Dr. Hillard is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stanford University College of Medicine and Duke University psychiatry residency. Dr. Hillard served on the faculty at the University of Virginia and has been at the University of Cincinnati for 16 years. His first five years were as Director of the Psychiatric Emergency Service.

He was founding president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry and was editor of the APA Press Manual of Clinical Emergency Psychiatry. He has published over eighty articles and book chapters. Dr. Hillard has been Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati since 1989, and was instrumental in starting University Managed Care, Inc., a managed mental health care carve-out firm, affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry. During his chairmanship, federally funded research in the department has grown from nothing to over $10,000,000 per year, and pharmaceutical research has grown from nothing to over $3,000,000 per year.

For six years he has been CEO of University of Cincinnati Physicians, the practice group for all of the clinical departments in the Medical Center. Dr. Hillard was recently named the Service Line Medical Director of Behavioral Medicine of the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati. He also currently serves as Executive Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs of the U.C. College of Medicine. He has found psychiatry in general, and emergency psychiatry specifically, excellent preparation for dealing with health care in the 1990s and into the new millennium.