Oral History with Dr. George C. Hill, interviewed by Dr. John Greer, 2024-10-28

Oral history interview of Dr. George C. Hill by Dr. John Greer. The interview was conducted in the Vanderbilt History of Medicine Colletions.

George C. Hill, PhD (1939-2026), professor emeritus of Medical Education and Administration and of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, was a world-renowned microbiologist who first cultivated Trypanosoma rhodesiense, the causative agent for sleeping sickness. Dr. Hill, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, helped transform the eductional culture at Vanderbilt University Medical School to better develop physicians and scientists from all backgrounds in a welcoming environment.

Dr. John Greer is Professor of Medicine and Hematology, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University. He was awarded an American Cancer Society Career Development Award (1985-88) and has played a major role in clinical research, education, and clinical care in patients with hematologic cancers. He has collaborated with hematopathology in the descriptions of newly recognized lymphoid neoplasms, particularly lymphomas of peripheral T cell origin and helped to establish the Vanderbilt Bone Marrow Transplant program in the early 1980s.