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Dr. Linda L Hill, MD, MPH, is a Distinguished Professor and Founding Faculty of the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, where she is also Associate Dean. Dr. Hill obtained her MD from the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa, Canada in 1978 and completed a transitional internship at McGill University in 1979. She completed her residency in Preventive Medicine from the University of California San Diego (UCSD)/San Diego State University (SDSU) General Preventive Medicine Residency in 1985. She is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. She was the founding Medical Director of the Exercise and Physical Activity Resource Center at UCSD at Qualcomm Institute. She is Faculty and immediate past Program Director of the UCSD/SDSU General Preventive Medicine Residency since 1989. San Diego Family Care, a Federal 330 Community Health Center, is the site of her clinical activities, as Medical Director 1980 to 2001, and Senior Staff Physician since 2001. She is the Director of the UCSD Training, Research and Education for Driving Safety (treds.ucsd.edu) and Co-Director of the UCSD Center for Human and Urban Mobility. She is the Executive Director of the Asylum-Seeker Shelter Health Assessment Program. Dr. Hill is engaged in prevention research and teaching, with current and past support from the NIH, the California Office of Traffic Safety, Robert Wood Johnson, American Cancer Society, Health Services Resource Administration, Caltrans,Federal Motor Carriers Service Association, and AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Caltrans, and the Bureau of Cannabis Control and is the author of 110+ peer reviewed papers, 4 book chapters, and 140+ abstracts. Her hobbies include classical piano and ocean sports.