Dr. Hinds is the Director of the Department of Nursing Science, Professional Practice, and Quality, the William and Joanne Conway Endowed Chair in Nursing Research, the Research Integrity Officer, and the Interim Director for the Center for Translational Research at Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C., and a Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D. C. She is an adjunct professor for the University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing, the University of Maryland, College of Nursing, and the Fudan University of Shanghai, China. For more than three decades, Dr. Hinds has created and led research related to the pediatric cancer experience, quality of life, fatigue and altered sleep during the treatment of pediatric cancers, and end-of-life communication and decision making. She has served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee on end-of-life and palliative care for children in America (2003) and the National Quality Forum panel on palliative and end-of-life care in America, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee on Dying in America (2014) and on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness (2016-2022), and the NCI Moonshot Tolerability Steering Committee (2019-present). Dr. Hinds is an Oncology Nursing Society Distinguished Nurse Researcher and the Association of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Distinguished Nurse Researcher and is the Editor-in-Chief for the journal, CANCER NURSING: An International Cancer Journal and the open access journal, Cancer Care Research Online. She is the 2020 recipient of the HPNA Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award in Palliative Care and the 2020 Nightingale Award from the American Nurses Association and the Washington Post, and the 2024 Rosen Research Award.