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.

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.