Faculty and Staff
Tina Hines, RN, PhD - Associate Dean for Research & Professor
Phone: 816.235.5767
Email: hinesmc@umkc.edu
CV: HinesT.pdf
Biography: Tina Hines, RN, PhD is the Thompson Endowed Professor of Research and Associate Dean for Research. As one of few Nurse Physiologists in the country, she teaches undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology. Her active and long standing research focus has been alterations in autonomic nervous system regulation of cardiovascular function during pregnancy. She is also investigating effects of hypertensive pregnancy on mothers and offspring. In collaboration with three other physiologists at UMKC, she is exploring effects of adverse prenatal environments on gender differences in cardiac and skeletal muscle metabolism as it relates to aging, obesity and metabolic disease.
After 10 years of clinical nursing working with pregnant women and their children, I became frustrated by the scarcity of evidence-based practice in obstetrics and pediatrics. . My fellow clinicians, both nurses.and physicians, could not explain the rationale for their clinical practices. When asked why a procedure was being done in a certain way, the answer was “I was trained to do it that way” or, worse, “I was told to do it that way.” I determined to become a researcher and contribute to the scientific knowledge upon which we base our clinical practice. Clinical practice in obstetrics should support the normal physiology of pregnancy and birth, and so I decided to complement my clinical nursing background with a doctorate in physiology. The blend of basic and clinical science has been productive and has allowed me to ask, and pursue answers to, research questions that can support better standards of care.
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