David C. Hilmers, M.D.
Faculty

Email: dhilmers @ bcm.edu

Dr. Hilmers completed the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program at Baylor in 1999. Prior to starting medial school, he spent 20 years in the Marine Corps as an aviator and electrical engineer, and retired as a colonel in 1992. He spent the last 12 years of his military career at NASA serving as an astronaut on four space shuttle missions including the first flight after the Challenger accident. After completing the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program, he joined the faculty at Baylor and worked with the Baylor Pediatric AIDS Initiative. Currently, he is involved with research at the Children’s Nutritional Research Center on nutritional programs around the world. His clinical work includes the Texas Children’s Hospital General Pediatrics Clinic, the Medicine-Pediatrics Continuity Clinic at Martin Luther King, and the adult emergency room at Ben Taub General Hospital.