Dr. Patrick Charles Hines is an associate professor of pediatric critical care medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, associate in the Department of Physiology at Wayne State University School of Medicine, and founder of Functional Fluidics. Dr. Hines has spent over 15 years investigating the mechanisms regulating microvascular blood flow in sickle cell disease, including sickle erythrocyte adhesion, leukocyte rolling, and platelet function.  Dr. Hines founded Functional Fluidics to make a standardized platform for measuring sickle erythrocyte adhesion and other critical blood function properties universally available for investigators and clinicians. The Functional Fluidics platform has now been adopted by the majority of pharmaceutical companies in the sickle cell therapeutics space to evaluate emerging and existing therapies.  In recognition of this work, Dr. Hines was selected as a member of the Health Innovation Fellowship within the Aspen Global Health Network and received the Crain’s Detroit Business 40 Under 40 award. Patrick completed both his fellowship in critical care medicine and pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.  He received his M.D. and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Hampton University.