Michael (Mick) A. Hill, M.D.

Email: mick_hill@med.unc.edu

Office Phone: 919-966-5477

Education:

B.S.E., Bioengineering, Purdue University

M.D., Wright State University School of Medicine

Residency, Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Co-Chief Resident, Consult-Liaison Service, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fellowship, ECT, Duke University Medical Center

Summary Statement:

Dr. Hill is a Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine. Current responsibilities include: Director of Inpatient Psychiatry Services at the NC Neurosciences Hospital, Medical Director of the Geropsychiatry Inpatient Unit, Attending on the ECT Service, and Attending in the Geropsychiatry Outpatient Clinic. His primary interests include diagnosis and treatment of dementia, depression, delirium and other psychotic disorders in the Elderly, Treatment resistant depression, Electroconvulsive Therapy, repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation(rTMS) and Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Representative Publications:

1.    Hill MA, Watson L: Use of Psychotropic Drugs in Cerebrovascular Disease. Clinical Geriatrics, 13:37-47, 2005

2.    Dawkins K, Ekstron, R.D, Hill, MA et al: Ethnicity And Seizure Threshold. Progress In Neuro-psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 25, 2000.

3.    Hill MA, Courvoisie H, Dawkins K, Nofal P, Thomas B: ECT for the treatment of intractable mania in two prepubertal male children. Convulsive Therapy 13:74-82, 1997.

4.    Hill MA: Light, Circadian Rhythms, and Mood Disorders (A Review). Annals of Clinical Psychiatry 4:131-145, 1992.

5.    Hill MA, Greason FC: Loperamide dependence. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 53:450, 1992

6.    Hill MA: Winter Depression. Your Health (Newsletter of the International Academy of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine) 14:1-2, 1993.