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Emily J. Hill, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical

Neurology & Rehabilitation Medicine | College of Medicine

Education/Credentials
  • Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine (Movement Disorders)
  • Residency: Rush University Medical Center (Neurology)
  • Internship: Loyola University Medical Center (Internal Medicine)
  • Medical Degree: Rush University Medical College
  • Bachelor of Science: Indiana University (Human Biology and Neuroscience)
Board Certifications & Licenses

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology) (Certification Date: 2018-09-24)

Specialties

Neurology

Contact Information

Clinical Interests

Movement Disorders

Neurology

Parkinson's Disease

Alzheimer's Disease

Ataxia

Balance Disorders

Bell's Palsy

Cataplexy

Catatonia

Cerebellar Ataxia

Chorea

Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD)

Dementia

Dyskinesias

Dystonia

Essential Tremor (ET)

Gait Disorders

Hemifacial Spasm

Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia

Huntington's Disease

Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis

Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis

Lewy Body Dementia

Lewy Body Disease

Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)

Muscle Rigidity

Muscle Spasticity

Myoclonic Seizures

Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

Orthostatic Hypotension (Postural Hypotension)

Paraparesis

Parkinson's Hypophonia (Bowing/Atrophy)

Posterior Cortical Atrophy

Prion Disease

Psychomotor Disorders

Sensory Ataxia

Serotonin Syndrome

Spasms

Spinocerebellar Ataxia (SCA)

Spinocerebellar Degenerations

Stiff-Person Syndrome

Subacute Combined Degeneration

Tauopathies

Tay-Sachs Disease

TDP-43 Proteinopathies

Tics and Tourette Syndrome

Tourette Syndrome

Tremors

Tropical Spastic Paraparesis

Vascular Cognitive Impairment

Vascular Dementia

Wernicke Encephalopathy

Peer Reviewed Publications

Akçimen, Fulya; Paquette, Kimberly; Wild Crea, Peter; Step, Kathryn; Waldo, Emily; Koretsky, Mathew J; Saffie-Awad, Paula; Achoru, Charles; Taiwo, Funmilola; Ozomma, Simon; Onwuegbuzie, Gerald; Khani, Marzieh; Grant, Spencer; Owolabi, Lukman; Okereke, Chiamaka; Oshinaike, Olajumoke; Iwuozo, Emmanuel; Akerman, Suleyman Can; Lee, Paul Suhwan; Oyakhire, Shyngle; Osemwegie, Nosakhare; Daida, Kensuke; Abubakar, Sani; Olusanya, Adedunni; Isayan, Mariam; Alvarez, Christiane; Traurig, Rami; Ogunmodede, Adebimpe; Samuel, Sarah; Makarious, Mary B; Sa'ad, Fadimatu; Olanigan, Rashidat; Levine, Kristin; Ogbimi, Ewere Marie; Vitale, Dan; Odiase, Francis; Ojini, Francis; Odeniyi, Olanike; Fang, Zih-Hua; Obianozie, Nkechi; Hall, Deborah A; Nwazor, Ernest; Xie, Tao; Nwaokorie, Francesca; Padmanaban, Mahesh; Nwani, Paul; Shamim, Ejaz A; Nnama, Alero; Standaert, David; Komolafe, Morenikeji; Dean, Marissa; Osaigbovo, Godwin; Disbrow, Elizabeth; Ishola, Ismaila; Rawls, Ashley; Imarhiagbe, Frank; Chandra, Shivika; Erameh, Cyril; Hinson, Vanessa; Louie, Naomi; Idowu, Ahmed; Solle, J; Norris, Scott A; Ibrahim, Abdullahi; Kilbane, Camilla; Sukumar, Gauthaman; Shulman, Lisa M; Ezuduemoih, Daniel; Staisch, Julia; Breaux, Sarah; Dalgard, Clifton; Foster, Erin R; Bello, Abiodun; Ameri, Andrew; Real, Raquel; Ikwenu, Erica; Morris, Huw R; Anyanwu, Roosevelt; Furr Stimming, Erin; Billingsley, Kimberley; Alaofin, Wemimo; Alvarez Jerez, Pilar; Agabi, Osigwe; Hernandez, Dena G; Akinyemi, Rufus; Arepalli, Sampath; Malik, Laksh; Owolabi, Raymond; Nyandaiti, Yakub; Leonard, Hampton L; Wahab, Kolawole; Abiodun, Oladunni; Hernandez, Carlos F; Abdulai, Fatima; Iwaki, Hirotaka; Bardien, Soraya; Klein, Christine; Hardy, John; Houlden, Henry; Galvelis, Kamalini Ghosh; Nalls, Mike A; Dahodwala, Nabila; Aamodt, Whitley; Hill, Emily; Espay, Alberto; Factor, Stewart; Branson, Chantale; Blauwendraat, Cornelis; Singleton, Andrew B; Ojo, Oluwadamilola; Chahine, Lana M; Okubadejo, Njideka; Bandres-Ciga, Sara 2026. Large-scale genetic characterization of Parkinson's disease in the African and African admixed populations. Brain : a journal of neurology, 149 5, 1537-1553

de la Esperanza, Blanca Talavera; Chinchihualpa-Paredes, Nathaly; Yu, Zheming; Herrera, Andrea; Vega, Patricia; Hill, Emily J; Espay, Alberto J; Kauffman, Marcelo A; Marsili, Luca 2026. Myotonia Mimicking Paroxysmal Dystonia: Two Cases of SCN4A Temperature-Sensitive Sodium Channelopathy. Movement disorders clinical practice, ,

Deraz, Heba A; Dwivedi, Alok K; Duque, Kevin R; Bloemer, Aaron; Marsili, Luca; Abanto, Jesus; Paredes, Nathaly Chinchihualpa; Gorriti, Andrea Herrera; Hill, Emily J; Duker, Andrew P; Mahajan, Abhimanyu; Espay, Alberto J 2026. Ambulatory Episodic Hypertension in Parkinson's Disease With Orthostatic Hypotension. Annals of neurology, ,

Ryu, Dong-Woo; Duque, Kevin R; Marsili, Luca; Abanto, Jesus; Paredes, Nathaly Chinchihualpa; Deraz, Heba A; Gorriti, Andrea Herrera; Hill, Emily J; Mahajan, Abhimanyu; Duker, Andrew; Espay, Alberto J 2026. Physical Activity and Motor and Cognitive Progression in Parkinson Disease: A Longitudinal Cohort Study. Neurology, 107 9, e218682

Yu, Zheming; de la Esperanza, Blanca Talavera; Abanto, Jesus; Deraz, Heba; Duque, Kevin R; Marsili, Luca; Hill, Emily J; Dwivedi, Alok Kumar; Espay, Alberto J; Mahajan, Abhimanyu 2026. Dystonia in Parkinson's disease: Clinical characteristics and predictors of treatment response. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 150 , 108422

Espay, Alberto J; Sturchio, Andrea; Imarisio, Alberto; Hill, Emily J; Williamson, Brady; Montemagno, Kora; Hoffmann, Christian; Roy, Hugo Le; Milovanovic, Dragomir; Manfredsson, Fredric P 2025. Physics of Protein Aggregation in Normal and Accelerated Brain Aging. BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, 47 8, e70030

Hill, Emily J; Marcucci, Samuel Blaise; DeLano, Kelly; Abanto, Jesus; Sawyer, Russell P; Marsili, Luca; Duque, Kevin R; Sun, Qin; Woo, Daniel; Langefeld, Carl D; Hall, Deborah A; Skirpan, Dawn; Paredes, Nathaly Chinchihualpa; Spikes, Cynthia; Bajaj, Deepa Agrawal; Gregor, Nathan; Stivers, Shea; Mahajan, Abhimanyu; Woo, Jessica G; Espay, Alberto J 2025. Community Disadvantage Is Associated With More Severe Motor Symptoms in Parkinson Disease. Neurology. Clinical practice, 15 4, e200506

Mahajan, Abhimanyu; Duque, Kevin R; Dwivedi, Alok K; Abanto, Jesus; Marsili, Luca; Hill, Emily J; Saraf, Ameya; McDonald, Kelsey J; Arowosegbe, Adebukunola; Deraz, Heba A; Bloemer, Aaron; Espay, Alberto J 2025. Exploring the intersection between orthostatic hypotension and daytime sleepiness in Parkinson's disease. Journal of the neurological sciences, 468 , 123366

Marsili, Luca; Duque, Kevin R; Abanto, Jesus; Chinchihualpa Paredes, Nathaly O; Duker, Andrew P; Collins, Kathleen; Miranda, Marcelo; Bustamante, M Leonor; Pauciulo, Michael; Dixon, Michael; Chaib, Hassan; Perez-Maturo, Josefina; Hill, Emily J; Espay, Alberto J; Kauffman, Marcelo A 2024. Studying Rare Movement Disorders: From Whole-Exome Sequencing to New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches in a Modern Genetic Clinic. Biomedicines, 12 12,

Duque, Kevin R; Vizcarra, Joaquin A; Hill, Emily J; Espay, Alberto J 2023. Disease-modifying vs symptomatic treatments: Splitting over lumping. Handbook of clinical neurology, 193 , 187-209

Hill, Emily J; Sharma, Jennifer; Wissel, Benjamin; Sawyer, Russell P; Jiang, Megan; Marsili, Luca; Duque, Kevin; Botsford, Vanesa; Wood, Christopher; DeLano, Kelly; Sun, Qin; Kissela, Brett; Espay, Alberto J 2023. Parkinson's disease diagnosis codes are insufficiently accurate for electronic health record research and differ by race. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 114 , 105764

Sawyer, Russell P; Bennett, Aleena; Blair, Jessica; Molano, Jennifer; Timmerman, Emerlee; Foster, Forrest; Karkoska, Kristine; Hyacinth, Hyacinth I; Manly, Jennifer J; Howard, Virginia J; Petrov, Megan E; Hoffmann, Coles M; Yu, Fang; Demel, Stacie L; Aziz, Yasmin; Hooper, Destiny; Hill, Emily J; Johnson, Jamelle; Pounders, Johnson; Shatz, Rhonna 2023. History of obstructive sleep apnea associated with incident cognitive impairment in white but not black individuals in a US national cohort study. Sleep medicine, 112 , 1-8

Hill, Emily J; Robak, Laurie A; Al-Ouran, Rami; Deger, Jennifer; Fong, Jamie C; Vandeventer, Paul Jerrod; Schulman, Emily; Rao, Sindhu; Saade, Hiba; Savitt, Joseph M; von Coelln, Rainer; Desai, Neeja; Doddapaneni, Harshavardhan; Salvi, Sejal; Dugan-Perez, Shannon; Muzny, Donna M; McGuire, Amy L; Liu, Zhandong; Gibbs, Richard A; Shaw, Chad; Jankovic, Joseph; Shulman, Lisa M; Shulman, Joshua M 2022. Genome Sequencing in the Parkinson Disease Clinic. Neurology. Genetics, 8 4, e200002

Pal, Gian; Mangone, Graziella; Hill, Emily J; Ouyang, Bichun; Liu, Yuanqing; Lythe, Vanessa; Ehrlich, Debra; Saunders-Pullman, Rachel; Shanker, Vicki; Bressman, Susan; Alcalay, Roy N; Garcia, Priscilla; Marder, Karen S; Aasly, Jan; Mouradian, M Maral; Link, Samantha; Rosenbaum, Marc; Anderson, Sharlet; Bernard, Bryan; Wilson, Robert; Stebbins, Glenn; Nichols, William C; Welter, Marie-Laure; Sani, Sepehr; Afshari, Mitra; Verhagen, Leo; de Bie, Rob M A; Foltynie, Tom; Hall, Deborah; Corvol, Jean-Christophe; Goetz, Christopher G 2022. Parkinson Disease and Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation: Cognitive Effects in GBA Mutation Carriers. Annals of neurology, 91 3, 424-435

Pounders, Jonathan; Hill, Emily J; Hooper, Destiny; Zhang, Xiang; Biesiada, Jacek; Kuhnell, Damaris; Greenland, Hannah L; Esfandiari, Leyla; Timmerman, Emerlee; Foster, Forrest; Wang, Chenran; Walsh, Kyle B; Shatz, Rhonna; Woo, Daniel; Medvedovic, Mario; Langevin, Scott; Sawyer, Russell P 2022. MicroRNA expression within neuronal-derived small extracellular vesicles in frontotemporal degeneration. Medicine, 101 40, e30854

Sawyer, Russell P; Hill, Emily J; Yokoyama, Jennifer; Medvedovic, Mario; Ren, Yan; Zhang, Xiang; Choubey, Divaker; Shatz, Rhonna S; Miller, Bruce; Woo, Daniel 2022. Differences in peripheral immune system gene expression in frontotemporal degeneration. Medicine, 101 3, e28645

Shen, Jack; Shillington, Amelle; Espay, Alberto J; Hill, Emily J 2022. Familial Brain Calcifications With Leukoencephalopathy: A Novel PDGFB Variant. Neurology. Genetics, 8 4, e200001

Sturchio, Andrea; Dwivedi, Alok K; Malm, Tarja; Wood, Matthew J A; Cilia, Roberto; Sharma, Jennifer S; Hill, Emily J; Schneider, Lon S; Graff-Radford, Neill R; Mori, Hiroshi; Nübling, Georg; El Andaloussi, Samir; Svenningsson, Per; Ezzat, Kariem; Espay, Alberto J 2022. High Soluble Amyloid-β42 Predicts Normal Cognition in Amyloid-Positive Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease-Causing Mutations. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 90 1, 333-348

Hill, Emily J; Mangleburg, C Grant; Alfradique-Dunham, Isabel; Ripperger, Brittany; Stillwell, Amanda; Saade, Hiba; Rao, Sindhu; Fagbongbe, Oluwafunmiso; von Coelln, Rainer; Tarakad, Arjun; Hunter, Christine; Dawe, Robert J; Jankovic, Joseph; Shulman, Lisa M; Buchman, Aron S; Shulman, Joshua M 2021. Quantitative mobility measures complement the MDS-UPDRS for characterization of Parkinson's disease heterogeneity. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 84 , 105-111

Marsili, Luca; Sharma, Jennifer; Espay, Alberto J; Migazzi, Alice; Abdelghany, Elhusseini; Hill, Emily J; Duque, Kevin R; Hagen, Matthew C; Stephen, Christopher D; Kovacs, Gabor G; Lang, Anthony E; Hadjivassiliou, Marios; Basso, Manuela; Kauffman, Marcelo A; Sturchio, Andrea 2021. Neither a Novel Tau Proteinopathy nor an Expansion of a Phenotype: Reappraising Clinicopathology-Based Nosology. International journal of molecular sciences, 22 14,

Sturchio, Andrea; Dwivedi, Alok K; Young, Christina B; Malm, Tarja; Marsili, Luca; Sharma, Jennifer S; Mahajan, Abhimanyu; Hill, Emily J; Andaloussi, Samir El; Poston, Kathleen L; Manfredsson, Fredric P; Schneider, Lon S; Ezzat, Kariem; Espay, Alberto J 2021. High cerebrospinal amyloid-β 42 is associated with normal cognition in individuals with brain amyloidosis. EClinicalMedicine, 38 , 100988

Sturchio, Andrea; Marsili, Luca; Vizcarra, Joaquin A; Dwivedi, Alok K; Kauffman, Marcelo A; Duker, Andrew P; Lu, Peixin; Pauciulo, Michael W; Wissel, Benjamin D; Hill, Emily J; Stecher, Benjamin; Keeling, Elizabeth G; Vagal, Achala S; Wang, Lily; Haslam, David B; Robson, Matthew J; Tanner, Caroline M; Hagey, Daniel W; El Andaloussi, Samir; Ezzat, Kariem; Fleming, Ronan M T; Lu, Long J; Little, Max A; Espay, Alberto J 2020. Phenotype-Agnostic Molecular Subtyping of Neurodegenerative Disorders: The Cincinnati Cohort Biomarker Program (CCBP). Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 12 , 553635