Teresa A. Hillier, MD, MS

Senior Investigator
Teresa Hillier

Dr. Hillier serves as medical director of a research program that includes a study of risk profiles and outcomes in adults with Type 2 diabetes and a study of post-menopausal women examining the risk factors of osteoporosis and possible relationships to breast cancer.

She received her M.D. from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in 1990 and also holds an M.S. in Epidemiology from the University of Virginia. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the Providence Medical Center in Portland, OR, and her Endocrinology fellowship at the University of Virginia.

She is a member of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, a member of the Endocrine Society, and a member of the American Diabetes Association. She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology at OHSU.

E-mail: Teresa.Hillier@kpchr.org

Recent Publications:

LeBlanc ES, Perrin N, Johnson JD Jr., Ballatore A, Hillier T. Over-the-counter and compounded vitamin D: Is potency what we expect? JAMA Internal Medicine 2013 Apr 8; 173(7):585-6.   PubMed abstract
Byers AL, Vittinghoff E, Lui LY, Hoang T, Blazer DG, Covinsky KE, Ensrud KE, Cauley JA, Hillier TA, Fredman L, Yaffe K. Twenty-year depressive trajectories among older women. Archives of General Psychiatry 2012 Oct; 69(10):1073-9. PMC3646479 [Available on 2013/10/1]   Full text
Parimi N, Blackwell T, Stone KL, Lui LY, Ancoli-Israel S, Tranah GJ, Hillier TA, Nevitt ME, Lane NE, for the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (SOF) Study Group. Hip pain while using lower extremity joints is associated with sleep disturbances in elderly caucasian women: The study of osteoporotic fractures. Arthritis care & research 2012 Jul; 64(7):1070-8. PMCID: PMC3355201 [Available on 2013/7/1]   Full text
Vesco KK, Marshall, LM, Nelson HD, Humphrey L, Rizzo JH, Pedula KL, Cauley JA, Ensrud KE, Hochberg MC, Antoniucci D, Hillier TA for the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures. Surgical menopause and nonvertebral fracture risk among older U.S. women. Menopause 2012 May; 19(5):510-6. PMC3342015   Full text
Diem SJ, Blackwell TL, Stone KL, Cauley JA, Hillier TA, Haney EM, Ensrud KE. Use of antidepressant medications and risk of fracture in older women. Calcified Tissue International 2011 Jun; 88(6):476-484. PMC3542967   Full text
Donaldson MG, Cawthon PM, Schousboe JT, Ensrud KE, Lui LY, Cauley JA, Hillier TA, Taylor BC, Hochberg MC, Bauer DC, Cummings SR. Novel methods to evaluate fracture risk models. Journal of Bone and Mineral Resarch 2011 Aug; 26(8):1767-1773. PMC3544194   Full text
Hillier TA, Cauley JA, Rizzo JH, Pedula KL, Ensrud KE, Bauer DC, Lui LY, Vesco KK, Black, DM, Donaldson MG, LeBlanc ES, Cummings SR. WHO absolute fracture risk models (FRAX): do clinical risk factors improve fracture prediction in older women without osteoporosis? Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2011 Aug; 26(8):1774-82. NIHMSID:438471   Full text
Hillier TA, Lui LY, Kado DM, LeBlanc ES, Vesco KK, Bauer DC, Cauley JA, Ensrud KE, Black DM, Hochberg MC, Cummings SR. Height loss in older women: Risk of hip fracture and mortality independent of vertebral fractures. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2012 Jan; 27(1):153-9[Epub 2011 Nov 9] PMCID: PMC3622730   Full text
LeBlanc ES, Hillier TA, Pedula KL, Rizzo JH, Cawthon PM, Fink HA, Cauley JA, Bauer DC, Black DM, Cummings SR, Browner WS. Hip fracture and increased short-term but not long-term mortality in healthy older women. Arch Intern Med 2011 Nov 14; 171(20):1831-7. [Epub 2011 Sep 26] PMCID: PMC3576923   Full text
Michael Y, Gold R, Perrin N, Hillier T. Built environment and lower-extremity physical performance: Prospective findings from the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures in Women. Journal of Aging and Health 2011 Dec; 23(8):1246-62. [Epub 2011 Jul 1] NIHMS446539   Full text


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