About

Oscar F. Hills, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and educator whose career has spanned clinical practice, organizational leadership, and medical education. He is board-certified in general psychiatry and has spent decades working with individuals seeking long-term therapeutic relationships oriented toward more gratifying living.

His intellectual work draws on psychoanalytic thinking, neuroscience, complexity theory, and philosophy of mind. In recent years, he has developed a sustained engagement with artificial intelligence — not as a clinical replacement, but as a tool for teaching, inquiry, and understanding how minds (biological and computational) process meaning.

Dr. Hills trained in psychiatry and has held clinical, educational, and administrative roles across academic and community settings. He has taught psychotherapy, supervised trainees, and served in organizational leadership positions that required navigating the intersection of clinical mission and institutional complexity.

The AI Lab section of this site reflects an ongoing experiment: building and deploying AI tools for education, from a virtual teaching assistant for psychoanalytic seminars to a small language model trained from scratch for demonstration purposes. These projects grow from a conviction that clinicians and educators should understand the tools reshaping their fields — not just use them, but build them.