Hilary Carlson is a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Certified Asthma Educator at Weill Cornell Medicine in the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy & Immunology. She specializes in working with children with asthma and related lung diseases.Ms. Carlson received a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester. She continued her education at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, where she earned a BS in Nursing and MS in Pediatric Advanced Practice Nursing. In 2006, Ms. Carlson came to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital where she spent the next 12 years working as a Registered Nurse on the inpatient pediatric units in the Komansky Children's Hospital.

In addition to working as Registered Nurse, she has worked as a nurse educator, helping to train nursing students at Columbia University School of Nursing and New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing.