Hofstra Athletics Hall of Fame
DR. HILARIE CRANMER
Dr. Hilarie Cranmer, who played four years of women’s basketball from 1984-88 and one year of volleyball, was a two-time Academic All-American and a 2006 inductee into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame.
Hilarie earned All-East Coast Conference honors three times, including first-team accolades as a senior, and was an honorable mention All-America as a sophomore. She currently ranks sixth on Hofstra’s all-time scoring list with 1,548 points, and is the school’s sixth all-time leading rebounder with 776. After averaging over 14 points and seven rebounds per game over her 110-game career, Hilarie played a year of volleyball while finishing her five-year engineering degree. Hilarie was recognized as Hofstra’s CAA legend at the 2006 CAA Basketball Championship.
Now a resident of the Roxbury section of Boston after growing up in Astoria, New York, Hilarie went on to earn her medical degree from Washington University in 1996, and a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004.
Currently an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Hilarie has volunteered in a number of disaster relief efforts, including following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the Tsunami in Indonesia.
She has also served as a medical officer at Embangweni Hospital in Malawi and as a field officer with Physicians for Human Rights in post-war Kosovo where she did human rights work, taught ultrasonography and trauma management.
As faculty in the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Hilarie is the Director of the Humanitarian Studies Initiative for Residents and the first Director of the Global Women’s Health Fellowship, a partnership with the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology.
