Dr. Hodder is currently Professor of Medicine, Director of HIV Programs, and Vice-Chair of the Department of Medicine at The New Jersey Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She received her M.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and received postgraduate training at the University of California at San Francisco and University Hospitals of Cleveland. After completing post-graduate training in internal medicine and specialty training in infectious diseases, she performed field work on Schistosomiasis haematobium in Kenya before becoming a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. In 2000, Dr. Hodder accepted a position at Bristol-Myers-Squibb and ultimately was promoted to Vice President of Virology Medical Affairs; in this position she was responsible for more than 100 domestic and international clinical trials in the areas of HIV and hepatitis. She left Bristol-Myers-Squibb in 2005 to return to academia where she was recruited to build HIV research and clinical programs in Newark, New Jersey, an area with one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the US. In her current position, she has been instrumental in the establishment of a multidisciplinary clinic that provides care for approximately 1,500 HIV-infected persons.