Dr. Hillman is the Theodore E. Keats Professor of Radiology and Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia, where he was Chair of the Department from January 1992 until March 2003. He now serves as both the Chief Scientific Officer of ACR Image Metrix, a contract research organization owned by the American College of Radiology (2007-present), and as founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (2003-present). During 1999-2007, he was the founding PI and Chair of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN), an NCI-funded clinical trials cooperative group that has organized more than 30 multi-center studies of imaging as it relates to cancer.

Dr. Hillman was educated at Princeton University (BA '69) and the University of Rochester (MD '73). He received his radiology training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. His first appointment was at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Hillman has published over 160 peer-reviewed articles and more than 140 book chapters, review articles, editorials, and texts. He has presented more than 30 honorary lectures, including both the RSNA Pendergrass New Horizons Lecture and the ARRS Caldwell Lecture. His principal research interests have focused on health policy issues important to radiologists, the development of research careers, and technology assessment. His research has altered AMA ethics policies and influenced legislation restricting self-referral.

Dr. Hillman has been President of five radiological societies and is a member of the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors (1995-present). Dr. Hillman was Editor-in-Chief of Investigative Radiology from 1989 to 1994, and was founding Editor-in-Chief of Academic Radiology during 1994-1997. Among his many honors, Dr. Hillman has received Honorary Membership in the French Society of Radiology, the Gold Medal of the Association of University Radiologists, and was the 2007 Radiological Society of North America Outstanding Researcher.