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Dr. Baines is currently a Research Instructor in the Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, a position he has held since 2005. Dr. Baines joined the Hospital in 2003 as a Research Fellow. Prior to that Dr. Baines was a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

Dr. Baines obtained his PhD in Basic Medical Sciences from the Department of Physiology at the University of South Alabama in 1999. He then conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Cardiovascular Research, University of Rochester, New York.

Dr. Baines work focuses primarily on the mechanism of the mitochondrial cell death pathway, with a specific emphasis on the process of mitochondrial permeability transition pore formation and its role in heart disease. In 2003 Dr. Baines received a New Investigator Award from the American Heart Association.