• Intersession Professional Development Director

• BA, Carleton College
• MD, University of Iowa College of Medicine
• Resident, Ramsey Family and Community Medicine, St. Paul, Minnesota
• Research Fellowship, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF

• Women’s Health: Menopause/midlife transition
• Medical education research
• Patient-Clinician Communication and diversity
• Sexual Health Counseling
• Caring for Underserved Populations
• Anthropological and qualitative research methodologies

• Hill-Sakurai LE, Schillinger E, Rittenhouse DR, Fahrenbach R, Hudes ES, LeBaron S, Shore WB, Hearst N.  Does required preclinical exposure affect students’ encouragement to pursue family medicine?  Family Medicine.
• Hill-Sakurai LE, Fahrenbach R, LeBaron S, Hudes ES, Rittenhouse D, Schillinger E, Shore W, Hearst N.  Feedback to medical students regarding family medicine as a specialty choice.  Abstract, Family Medicine. 34: 541. 2002.
• Hill-Sakurai LE.  Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for menopause: a qualitative analysis of women’s decision making. (Currently under review.)
• Hill LE, Mehegan JP, Butters CA, Tobacman LS.  Analysis of troponin-tropomyosin binding to actin: troponin does not promote interactions between tropomyosin molecules.  Journal of Biological Chemistry.  267: 16106-16113, 1992.
• Willardsen KA, Butters CA, Hill LE, Tobacman LS.  Effects of the amino-terminal regions of tropomyosin and troponin T on thin filament assembly.  Journal of Biological Chemistry.  267: 23746-23752, 1992.

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