Hill, Philip Richardson

Physician, dean, university vice president, university president

Samuel Richardson Hill was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, on 19 May 1923. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Duke University and his M.D. from Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University. Hill originally came to the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1954. Having served as a teaching fellow at Harvard University, Hill accepted a two year appointment as director of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism of th e Medical College of Alabama. Dr. Joseph F. Volker appointed Hill dean of the Medical College of Alabama in 1962. He remained dean until 1968 at which time he was named vice president for health affairs of the Medical Center. Hill served in this post until 1977 when he succeeded Joseph F. Volker as president of the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He served as president until 1987 and since then as a distinguished professor of UAB.

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