Professor of Pediatrics & Medicine
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

James O. Hill, Ph.D. is Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Hill also serves as the Director of the Center for Human Nutrition, a nutrition center funded by the National Institutes of Health. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Tennessee and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of New Hampshire in Physiological Psychology. He has served on numerous government panels, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Taskforce on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity. He is a Past Chair of the NIH Nutrition Study Section. He served as Chair of the World Health Organization Consultation on Obesity in 1997. He is a Past President of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) and is a current regional Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO). He was also a member of the Expert Panel on Obesity of the National Institutes of Health that developed U.S. guidelines for the treatment and prevention of obesity. Dr. Hill is currently involved in a public health initiative for obesity prevention in Colorado, Colorado on the Move™, that was officially launched in the fall of 2002. America on the Move™, was launched summer of 2003. Dr. Hill has published over 200 scientific articles and book chapters in the area of obesity. Dr. Hill is a co-founder of the National Weight Control Registry, a registry of individuals who have been successful in maintenance of a reduced body weight. He is the recipient of a prestigious MERIT award from NIH.