Rate My Professor Brigid Hill

Brigid (Gerry) Hill serves as Lecturer in Vascular Sciences within the Department of Surgery and Critical Care at the Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago. She holds a Master of Health Sciences degree in Venous Disease with Distinction from the University of Otago, completed around 2011, following an undergraduate degree in health science. With a career spanning over two decades at the University of Otago since 2002, she is also the Clinical Manager, Charge Sonographer, and Charge Technologist (DMU Vascular) at Otago Vascular Diagnostics, the vascular laboratory of the Vascular Research Group. In these roles, she manages clinical operations, supervises training, and integrates vascular ultrasound expertise into research and patient care within the Faculty of Medicine's Health Sciences Division.

Her academic interests center on vascular ultrasound techniques and their applications in assessing venous and arterial conditions, including abdominal aortic aneurysm sizing, perforator vein directionality, post-EVAR endoleak surveillance, suprarenal diameter impacts on aneurysm repair outcomes, microvenous reflux, and venous physiology in obesity and varicose veins. Key publications include 'Recurrence after varicose vein surgery: a prospective long-term clinical study with duplex ultrasound scanning and air plethysmography' (Journal of Vascular Surgery, 2003), 'Incidence of deep vein thrombosis after varicose vein surgery' (British Journal of Surgery, 2004), 'Neovascularization and recurrent varicose veins: more histologic and ultrasound evidence' (Journal of Vascular Surgery, 2004), 'Obesity and impaired venous function' (European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 2008), 'Failure of microvenous valves in small superficial veins is a key to the skin changes of venous insufficiency' (Journal of Vascular Surgery, 2011), 'The Impact of Suprarenal Diameter on Outcomes Following Endovascular Aneurysm Repair' (Vascular, 2022), 'Aneurysm Sac Size Post-EVAR as a Useful Marker for Future Endoleak' (European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 2024), and 'A novel infra-red fluorescence method to identify regions of superficial microvenous reflux' (Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous & Lymphatic Disorders, 2026). These works have advanced diagnostic protocols and understanding of vascular disease mechanisms.