Thursday, December 9, 2010

Next Week's DSS - Dr. Nicholas Hill

The next Distinguished Scientist Seminar at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine will be presented by Dr. Nicholas Hill, professor of medicine and chief of the pulmonary critical care and sleep division at Tufts Medical Center in Boston.

His seminar, titled “Serotonin Signaling in Pulmonary Hypertension,” will take place Dec. 16, 2010, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium on USA’s main campus.

Dr. Hill also serves as director of the Pulmonary Vascular Center at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. His clinical specialties include pulmonary hypertension, mechanical ventilation, non-invasive ventilation and general pulmonology.

Dr. Hill received his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H., and conducted postgraduate training at Boston University. He is board certified in critical care medicine, internal medicine and pulmonary disease.

For more information on Dr. Hill’s research, click here. For additional information on the lecture, contact Natalie Kent at (251) 461-1548.