Hofstra, 1988
• 1986 Second Team Academic All-America®
• 1987 Third Team Academic All-America®
Dr. Hilarie Cranmer was inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame in 2006.
Now a resident of the Roxbury section of Boston after growing up in Astoria, N.Y., Hilarie Cranmer was a two-time Academic All-America® while playing basketball at Hofstra University during the late eighties. She 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.
At her induction date, Cranmer ranked fifth on Hofstra's all-time scoring list with 1,548 points, and was the school's fourth all-time leading rebounder with 776. After averaging over 14 points and seven rebounds per game over her 110-game career, she played a year of varsity volleyball while finishing her five-year engineering degree.
Cranmer 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. She played a year of professional basketball in Austria, and has worked as a doctor for brief periods in Kosovo, Tanzania and Malawi.
She was an attending physician with Brigham Women's Hospital and a clinical instructor at the Harvard Medical School, Cranmer and volunteered in a number of disaster relief efforts, including following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the Tsunami in Indonesia. She's also been involved in programs to deliver health care and training in the developing world.