Sidney R. Hinds Ii MD

Dr. Hinds is a recently retired United States Army officer with over 30 years of military medical experience. He is a neurologist and nuclear medicine physician who most recently served as the DoD Brain Health Research Coordinator for the DoD Blast Injury Research Coordinating Office and as the Medical Advisor to the Principal Assistant for Research and Technology (PAR&T), Medical Research and Materiel Command, Ft Detrick, MD.

He was the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center’s (DVBIC) fifth national director from July 1, 2013, to 16 March 2016. He served to collaborate, advise, and promote military relevant neurological and psychological medical and non-medical research efforts within the DoD and with external partners. One of his efforts to accomplish this mission was his additional role as a co-primary investigator on the VA, DoD, and VCU collaboration, entitled the Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium (CENC). This is a concerted effort to analyze the natural history of mild traumatic brain injury and its potential long-term effects. The creation of this consortium was in direct response to the National Research Action Plan (NRAP) of 2013.

As national director, DVBIC, Col. Hinds oversaw all aspects of the organization’s mission, which is to serve active-duty military and veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) through state-of-the-art medical care and care coordination, and innovative clinical research and educational programs.

His other significant military medicine leadership roles included: deputy director of the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) for Military Medical Operations; the in-theater neurologist in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom), and chief of Nuclear Medicine Services at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, chief of integrated nuclear medicine services for the Base Realignment and Closure process that combined the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center, National Naval Medical Center, and Fort Belvoir Community Hospital.