Dr. Hilton is the Senior Research Scientist at Waypoint and a Professor of Psychiatry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. She is also a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. Since joining Waypoint over 30 years ago, she has been both a front-line clinician and a full-time researcher. Dr. Hilton conducts research that pertains to justice-involved individuals in the criminal justice and psychiatric systems, and the professionals who provide services for them. She has conducted influential research in the areas of domestic violence, risk assessment, risk communication, and more recently the physical health and psychological wellbeing of both patients and staff at psychiatric hospitals. She was the lead of the research team that created the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA). She is principal investigator on SSHRC-funded research to examine standardized risk assessment and coercive control in domestic violence.