
Emily Jane Hill , MD
Associate Professor of Clinical
One Stetson Square
COM Neurology Movement - 0525
Education
Bachelor of Science: Indiana University Bloomington, IN, 2010 (Human Biology and Neuroscience)
Medical Degree: Rush University Medical College Chicago, IL, 2014
Internship: Loyola University Medical Center Chicago, IL, 2015 (Internal Medicine)
Residency: Rush University Medical Center Chicago, IL, 2018 (Neurology)
Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, 2020 (Movement Disorders)
Certifications
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology) (Certification Date: 09-24-2018 )
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
Specialities
Neurology
Research Support
Grant: #SUB/R01NS125294 Investigators:Espay, Alberto; Hill, Emily 04-01-2022 -03-31-2027 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Racial Disparities in Parkinson Disease- Clinical Phenotype, Management and Genetics Role:PI 46100.00 Hold Level:Federal
Grant: #MJFF-025018 Investigators:Hill, Emily 01-01-2024 -12-31-2024 Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Black and African Americans Connection to Parkinson's Disease Role:PI 5577.50 Hold Level:Non Profit
Grant: #PF-PDGENE-1484319 Investigators:Hill, Emily 02-01-2025 -06-30-2026 Parkinsons Foundation PD GENEration Site Agreement Role:PI 20000.00 Hold Level:Non Profit
Grant: #00009109/ 5R01AG085029-02 Investigators:Hill, Emily; Yu, Zheming 08-01-2025 -07-31-2026 University of Southern California The Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Clinical Trial Platform (PTP) Role:PI 1033828.00 Hold Level:Higher Education
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
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 More Information
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, , More Information
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 More Information
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, , More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 ) , More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information
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 ) , More Information
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 More Information
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 More Information