Dr. Hiller is the Director of the Pacific Northwest VA Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education, and Clinical Center (PADRECC), a practicing movement disorders neurologist at the Portland VA Medical Center (PVAMC), and an Associate Professor at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU). Dr. Hiller is also the Director of the Movement Disorders joint fellowship program at PVAMC & OHSU.

Dr. Hiller received her MD from the Medical College of Georgia, completed residency at Brown University, then a health policy fellowship in Washington, D.C., and finally her movement disorders training at Portland VA/OHSU and University of Massachusetts Medical Center. 

Dr. Hiller has been working with patients affected by movement disorders in a research and clinical capacity since she began her fellowship at the PVAMC and OHSU in 2007. She has served as PI on several investigator-initiated clinical research grants in the field of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Huntington’s (HD). In addition, she serves as the Physician Lead for Movement Disorders Neuropalliative Clinics at OHSU and PVAMC and is involved in a Patient Centered Outcomes Research project through The Parkinson’s Foundation.

In her educational role as the Fellowship Director of Movement Disorders since 2014, Dr. Hiller has mentored over 20 movement disorder neurologists with past fellows now practicing in 11 different US States and Canada. Dr. Hiller passion for mentorship goes beyond working with fellows and she has mentored multiple medical students and residents as well. Several of her trainees have received grant funding with her support and continued to collaborate with her as independent investigators.

In her leadership role as the Director of PADRECC, Dr. Hiller has worked to ensure the missions of research, education, and clinical care are carried out. Specifically, she has instituted a yearly introductory session for VA PADRECC fellows from across the country. She continues to provide clinical care in this role and sees Veterans from as far as the Dakotas, having a passion for providing state of the art care to some of the most rural areas in the United States.