H. E. Hinson, M.D., M.C.R. is a Professor of Clinical Neurology at University of California, San Francisco and a Neurointensivist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Her research focuses on developing precision strategies for the treatment of acute neurotrauma by integrating high dimensional molecular and clinical data to infer predictive analytic models of clinically relevant endpoints.

The lab uses analytical tools such as machine learning to tackle complex datasets generated in the course of neurological critical care. She is also interested in biomarker discovery in the acute clinical setting. With the assistance of collaborators, the group also is actively pursuing fluid-based protein biomarkers using modalities including mass spectrometry (global discovery proteomics).

Nationally, at the American Academy of Neurology, Dr. Hinson chairs the Clinic Research Subcommittee, is Vice Chair of the Science Committee, and serves on the Academic Neurology Committee. She is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Neurology, Stroke, and Neurotrauma.

Dr. Hinson is a national leader in equity initiatives. She founded the American Academy of Neurology’s LGBTQI section in 2017 and served as its inaugural chair from 2018-2020. Dr. Hinson serves on the American Heart Association’s Journal EDI Editorial Board and is one of three EDI Associate editors for the journal Neurology. She also has a deep commitment to mentoring underrepresented individuals in research, serving as a mentor in the BUILD EXITO program at Oregon Health and Science University (focused on undergraduate students) and NINDS-AAN TRANSCENDS R25 program (focused on residents, fellows, and junior faculty). Dr. Hinson has also provided career mentorship for faculty participants in the Diversity Leadership Program, Women Leading in Neurology, and the Emerging Leaders Program at the AAN. 

She completed her MD at University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio in 2005 and her Neurology residency at the University of Maryland in 2009. She followed her residency with subspecialty training in Neurocritical Care at Johns Hopkins University, graduating from fellowship in 2011. She joined the faculty at Oregon Health Science center in 2011, and later received her Masters of Clinical Research there in 2016. In 2023, she moved her lab to UCSF, based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.

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