David Joseph Hill is a renowned professor in the Departments of Medicine and Physiology & Pharmacology at Western University. He holds the Lawson Professorship in Diabetes Research and was previously Scientific Director at the Lawson Health Research Institute and Integrated Vice President of Research for both the London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London. He received his education at the University of Nottingham and Worcester College at the University of Oxford. He is a prolific author, having published more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and he maintains an active program in diabetes research and progenitor cell biology. He has received numerous accolades for his work, including Diabetes Canada’s Frederick G. Banting Award, the Medal of the Society for Endocrinology from the UK, and the Jorgen Pederson Medal of the Diabetic Pregnancy Study Group. In 2011, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS). His research is primarily focused on developing new insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas as a means of reversing diabetes.