[5] Stiller graduated from Bedford Road Collegiate and completed two years of undergraduate pre-medical studies in Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan.
[9] Stiller was an early adopter of computerized patient records; he was a partner in the firm that co-created the first form of telemedicine offered by the Government of Ontario.
[10] Stiller was principal investigator in the early 1980s in the clinical trials and market development of the drug cyclosporine for use as a first-line therapy for transplant rejection.
[12] Stiller was on a team of researchers that proved that human type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder and therefore amenable to immunosuppressant treatment.
[13] Stiller co-founded the Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund Inc., which has raised and managed over half a billion dollars in assets.
[1] Also in 2010, he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences,[24] and won the highly prestigious Canada Gairdner Wightman Award.