Dr Hynes was born and educated in the U.K. He attended Cambridge and London Universities and graduated in Medicine in 1980. He commenced his Ophthalmic training at Moorfields Hospital in 1988 and trained in eye surgery in the London area.

He moved to Manchester to work in a busy Laser Eye Clinic in 1994 and now lives in Cheshire. He is married with 3 children. He has specialised in refractive surgery for short sight since 1993 and has presented work at the annual European Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meetings. He has been carrying out lasik since 1999 and has trained on the Nidek, Intralase, Summit and Technolas Laser machines, as well as the LaserSight machine currently used at Visualase. He has carried out over 12,000 procedures and maintains a keen interest in the future developments of laser refractive surgery. He has worked with Dr Doyle since 1994 in the development of surface and flap based laser surgery techniques.

He is registered by the GMC and is a member of the BMA and the ESCRS.

His interests include aviation and photography as well as music.