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Dr. Robert (Robin) Hines is a cancer epidemiologist and cancer health services researcher. Dr. Hines’ research concerns improving the quality of cancer care and investigating trends and causes of disparities in cancer outcomes. Dr. Hines has conducted large-scale epidemiologic studies to quantify and explain causes of disparate cancer outcomes for various segments of the population defined by race-ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geography, and age. Overall, the goal of Dr. Hines’ research is to improve patient-centered, clinical, and population-level cancer outcomes. Dr. Hines’ research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation, UCF, and others.
The UCF College of Medicine welcomed Dr. Hines as an Associate Professor of Medicine in June 2016. Dr. Hines is a member of the Department of Population Health Sciences. In the College of Medicine, Dr. Hines teaches epidemiology, mentors medical students on their research projects, and serves as a facilitator for the Making of a Physician course. Dr. Hines is Chair of Institutional Review Board 2 at UCF and also Chair of the Cancer Subgroup of the Population Health Collaborative Council.
Dr. Hines has served as a grant reviewer for the National Cancer Institute. He is an Associate Editor for BMC Cancer and a reviewer for numerous scientific journals. He received his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Ryals School of Public Health in 2009.
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