Mary Hiller

An accomplished healthcare executive for MedExpert International, Mary Hiller began her career as a researcher with Stanford University’s Department of Hematology. Over the course of her career, Mary Hiller has served the Palo Alto Medical Foundation as the medical information director. She also wrote a highly-lauded syndicated medical column for United Media. In her personal life, she pursues her interest in experimental crops and sustainable vegetable gardening.

Sustainable gardening is a form of organic gardening that considers other environmental factors, such as water use and how to leverage the garden’s biodiversity, to help it propagate and maintain itself. For example, sustainable gardeners may eliminate the need for pesticides by planting garlic near other crops to deter rust flies.

Rather than using man-made fertilizers to add nutrients to the soil, sustainable gardeners turn their yard waste into nutrition-packed compost. To further keep to the principles of organic gardening, sustainable gardeners only use weed control methods derived from natural ingredients.

Gardeners can also reduce many of the damaging aspects of growing vegetables by only growing crops that are native to the region and will not need extra water or chemicals to thrive. Implementing rainwater collection systems and ensuring the soil is highly permeable are other sustainable practices that reduce water utilization and prevent runoff.

A senior administrator with a focus on medical and health information systems, Mary Hiller serves as executive director of MedExpert International for nearly two decades. When she isn’t working, Mary Hiller is an equine sports enthusiast who particularly loves the polo, Hunter/Jumpers, dressage and medical applications of the horse world.

Most equine activities evolved from military traditions. Hunter/jumper events required horses to gallop over miles of uneven and obstacle-strewn terrain. Polo emphasized the handiness and agility of horse and rider. Dressage was originally structured between military barracks and required the “general’s” horses to execute movements that would save a general and block attacks from the front, rear or both. Fantastic athletic moves such as those seen by the Vienna’s Lipizzaners, still train those airborne maneuvers.

And a medical use of horses is close to Hiller’s heart. Horses provide a natural conduit for medical application. “Hippo therapy” allows individuals who may not have the physical or mental ability to respond to traditional physical and occupational therapy a magical chance to sit on a horse and allow their bodies and minds to be taken into an area that subconsciously executes both physical and occupational therapy. Hiller worked for years with the founder of National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy (NCEFT) to design and support this program; it is now utilized by a spectrum of children and adults… ranging from a two-year old with a non-responsive medical issue to US Veterans on their road back to mental and physical recovery.

Mary Hiller

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Executive Director at MedExpert International