Elizabeth Sloman Hillman

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Donald (left) and Elizabeth (right) Hillman

Dr. Elizabeth Hillman is a Canadian professor of pediatrics who, along with her husband Dr. Donald Hillman, received the Order of Canada in 1994 for her work in international child health and development. For 13 years she served in Memorial University’s Faculty of Medicine as professor of pediatrics. She was also director of ambulatory education at the Janeway Child Health Centre.

Dr. Elizabeth Hillman is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and received her postgraduate training in Montreal Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, England, and Harvard University. She was the first female president of the Medical Council of Canada.

She arrived at Memorial University in 1976 after a nearly 20-year association with McGill where she advised the Kuwait Medical School on postgraduate training, and taught at the University of Nairobi. While at Memorial, she served as chair of the Medical Education Council of the Newfoundland Medical Association.

Together the Hillmans have directed CIDA-funded programs in Kenya and Uganda, served as medical consultants in Kuwait, Zambia, Tanzania, Singapore, Laos, Malaysia, South Africa and Bhutan and completed Canadian Executive Services Organization (CESO) projects in Kenya, India, Guyana, the Philippines and Pakistan, as well as working as senior medical officers for UNICEF in Uganda.

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