Renee Hodges, BA

Renee began working for the Department of Hematology at St. Jude in April 2019 within the clinical trials management group. What was supposed to be a three-month contract performing data entry for the Sickle Cell Comprehensive Research Intervention Program (SCCRIP) turned into three and a half years of abstracting data for the longitudinal cohort study.

In the fall of 2022, Renee was invited to join the hematology team as a CRA I, helping manage a program creating severity classifications and cumulative burden analysis processes for sickle cell disease (SCD) health outcome events.

Renee is surprised and delighted to find herself continuing this work in global pediatric medicine as a CRA II, helping achieve the research goals of Drs. Nickhill Bahkta, Jane Hankins, Cliff Takemoto, and Yutaka Yasui with this interdepartmental SCD cumulative burden analysis project. She is motivated by the large visions of GPM and is particularly inspired to see the global hematology program grow and thrive for SCD communities around the world.

Renee has a B.A. in communication and fine arts, and prior to her recent pivot into clinical research, she was a creative entrepreneur. When time allows, she still coordinates the occasional artist market pop-up, makes leather jewelry, supplies blooms from her garden to local florists, and paints murals around Memphis.

She is a multi-passionate human who is extremely lucky to have the partnership and support of her husband, Jason Hodges, and the love and laughter of two awesome teenage daughters. Renee is beyond excited to have the opportunity to join the global team.