Ronald N. Hines

Biography

 Dr. Ronald N. Hines is the Associate Director for Health at the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) in the Office of Research and Development of the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). In this position, he is the scientific lead for the three NHEERL health divisions and their diverse research portfolio, as well as the Research Core Unit. Dr. Hines also cochairs the National Science and Technology Council’s Toxics and Risk Subcommittee and serves as an US EPA liaison to the National Academy of Science Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions. Dr. Hines began his academic career as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vermont College of Medicine (1980–1983). He accepted a position as Assistant Professor, Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases and the Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1983, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1988. Dr. Hines was recruited to the Wayne State University School of Medicine as Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Pediatrics Associate in 1989 and in 1995, was promoted to Professor of Pharmacology. In 1999, he assumed a position as Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he also served as Associate Director of the Children’s Research Institute of the Children’s Hospital and Health Systems (2005–2012) and Co-Section Chief of Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacogenetics, and Teratology in the Department of Pediatrics. In addition, Dr. Hines was Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2006–2012). Dr. Hines moved to his current position in 2012. Dr. Hines’ administrative experience includes serving as Assistant Program Leader for the Chemical Carcinogenesis Program at the Myer L. Prentis Comprehensive Cancer Center of Metropolitan Detroit from 1990–1995. Dr. Hines served as a member of the Clinical Pharmacology Training Faculty at Wayne State University and Children’s Hospital of Michigan for seven years (1992–1999). In 1994, he worked as a director for the Regulation of Gene Expression Research Core at the NIEHS-sponsored Environmental Health Sciences Center for Molecular and Cellular Toxicology with Human Applications at Wayne State University from 1994–1997 and from 1997 through 1999, as the deputy director of this center. When recruited to the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1999, he cofounded and served as codirector of the Birth Defects Research Center, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and then became the co-chief of the clinical pharmacology, pharmacogenetics and teratology section within the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2003. In addition, Dr. Hines served as an associate director of the Children’s Research Institute at the Children’s Hospital and Health Systems from 2005 to 2012; and the deputy director of the NIEHS-sponsored Children’s Environmental Health Sciences Core Center, a joint initiative between the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, the Children’s Research Institute, and Medical College of Wisconsin, from 2009 to 2012.

Research Interest

 Chemical Carcinogenesis, clinical pharmacology, pharmacogenetics and teratology