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John Hill, DO, FAAFP, FACSM
Professor, University of Colorado
Director of Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship
Faculty, Rose Family Medicine Residency
I was born in Denver and graduated from South High School; my father graduated from South and my grandfather helped build South in the late 1920s. As a third generation Colorado native, it is hard to imagine living anywhere else. Osteopathic medical school took me to LA where I graduated from Western University and then half way across the country to Kansas City where I did my Family Medicine residency at Truman East-UMKC. My residency -- which had an emphasis on training rural physicians -- prepared me well for obstetrics and procedural medicine. Now, many years later, I have delivered over one thousand babies including many by cesarean and continue my role training residents to perform procedures in family medicine, such as injections, colposcopy, LEEP, vasectomy, obstetrical and musculoskeletal ultrasound. I have been on faculty at Rose Family Medicine since 1994 and it thrills me to see residents I have helped train working throughout Colorado and training other residents. We began a Sports Medicine Fellowship in 1999 which has grown significantly; directing this fellowship program now consumes most of my time but I am still at Rose two to three days a week. My wife and I celebrated our 27th anniversary in the Highest Halls of Human Happiness and we have two teenage daughters, Joanna and Bethany, who do not love the Colorado outdoors nearly as much as their parents do. Climbing, mountain biking, road biking, and skiing are all wonderful, but I have found a new addiction: ultramarathons. Running is the easy part, but my goal is to figure out how to run a hundred miles without tearing my body up and winding up on crutches.