Joel Hill

Joel Hill, MPAS, PA-C, is the director of community-based learning at the UW–Madison Physician Assistant (PA) Program in the School of Medicine and Public Health, where he started in 2010 with 14 years of clinical experience in military and civilian practices.

Joel Hill coordinates and directs the PA program’s distance education option, and coordinates the clinical pharmacology, clinical prevention and population health modules. He also assists with teaching history and physical assessment evaluations.

Hill graduated from the United States Air Force/University of Nebraska PA program in 1996 and received his MPAS from the University of Nebraska in 1998. He practiced family medicine and urgent care for 10 years while on active duty in various locations, with a 2004 tour in Iraq. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2006 after 21 years on active duty and began working as a surgical physician assistant in Rapid City, South Dakota, in general, thoracic and oncologic surgery.

As a surgical PA he practiced hospital and clinic medicine as well as first assisting in numerous surgeries. He has also instructed at the University of Alaska while stationed in Fairbanks and for the South Dakota Academy of Physician Assistants’ annual conferences.