Biographical Sketch for John Hines

John Hines is manager of the Sensors 2000! (S2K!) Program, an Advanced Sensor Systems Development Integrated Projects Team operating from within the Research and Development Services Directorate at NASA-Ames Research Center. John also manages the Advanced Technology Development Project in Biosensor and Biotelemetry development (ATD-B) for the NASA Headquarters Life Sciences Division (HQ Code UL), and represents technology issues for the NASA Life Sciences Gravitational Biology and Ecology Program.

John is the initiator and technical monitor for an Interagency Agreement (IAA) with the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC) at Ft Detrick, MD to collaborate on insertion and application of advanced sensor and instrumentation technologies for the DoD Combat Casualty Care and Chemical/Biological Defense (CBD) Programs, and related NASA and DARPA applications.

In addition to the above-described projects, John was recently engineering manager for spaceflight bioinstrumentation development for the US/Russian BION-11, Neurolab Biotelemetry, and Space Station Advanced Biotelemetry Systems Development Projects. Before then, John was Project Manager for the Rhesus Measurement System, the Cosmos 2229 US/Russian Bioinstrumentation System (BION-10), and several ground-based sensor and instrumentation projects. In 1996, John received the NASA Exceptional service medal, highlighting his accomplishments in Biosensor, Biotelemetry and Spaceflight hardware development and applications.

In the area of technology applications and transfer, John manages several collaborative programs made available through the Ames Sensors 2000! (S2K!) and HQ Life Sciences Advanced Technology Development-Biosensors (ATD-B) programs. As a specific example of these effort, pediatric surgeons at the University of California at San Francisco Fetal Treatment Center (UC-SF FTC) initiated a project to use NASA biosensor and telemetry technology to monitor the condition of fetuses with life-threatening congenital conditions. Other examples of collaborative activities include: An ex-vivo blood gas analysis system, a wireless wearable physiological status monitoring system, a telemetric hydrocephalus shunt monitor, and a chemical sensor online measurement system for cell culture systems.

Prior to his NASA activities, John was a Major in the US Air Force assigned as Deputy Chief of the Information Processing Technology Branch in the Avionics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Previously to that, he was Manager of the NASA-Ames Cardiovascular Research Laboratory. John has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tuskegee University and a M.S. in EE/Biomedical Engineering from Stanford University, and has over 23 years of combined NASA/Air Force service.

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