Kevin Hill

Kevin P. Hill, M.D., M.H.S., is an addiction psychiatrist, Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He grew up in Rochester, New York and attended McQuaid Jesuit High School. He subsequently graduated from Skidmore College and Jefferson Medical College before training in psychiatry at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Dr. Hill earned a Masters in Health Sciences from the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale and also completed the Partners Healthcare Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program.

Dr. Hill’s clinical research is focused primarily on medications and behavioral interventions that might improve available treatments for those wanting to stop smoking marijuana. Dr. Hill was the recipient of a prestigious federal K99/R00 grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to test the efficacy of a synthetic marijuana-like compound, nabilone, as a potential medication treatment for patients with marijuana addiction. His work has been funded by NIDA, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundations, the American Lung Association, the Greater Boston Council on Alcoholism, and the Peter G. Dodge Foundation. He has received multiple competitive awards as an investigator and published on numerous topics in addiction.

In addition to the clinical trials he directs, Dr. Hill sees patients in his private practice and consults to the Boston Red Sox, the National Football League, and the National Basketball Association.

Over the past several years, Dr. Hill has been asked to weigh in on marijuana policy issues such as medical marijuana and legalization of marijuana. He is committed to bridging the gap between the science and the public perception about marijuana. He has spoken nationally and internationally to students from public and private schools, parents, healthcare professionals, and organizations about marijuana science, policy, and treatment, as well as alcohol and opioids.

Dr. Hill is the author of Marijuana: The Unbiased Truth about the World’s Most Popular Weed (Hazelden, March 2015). Because of his broad education, training and experience in the field of psychiatry, and his unique ability to effectively communicate in common sense language, Dr. Hill is frequently called upon for his expert opinion on current events by major news outlets.

Companies

• Director, Division of Addiction Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Psychiatry Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School (2019)
• Director, Division of Addiction Psychiatry, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School (2017)
• Director, Substance Abuse Consultation Service; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School (2007 — 2017)
• Clinical Fellow Harvard Medical School (2001 — 2005)

Education

• Master's Degree Yale University School of Medicine (2005 — 2007)
• Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University (2001 — 2005)
• Bachelor's Degree Skidmore College (1991 — 1995)