Melody Benton is a New Orleans native, graduating from Eleanor Laura McMain Magnet Secondary School. She then decided to leave New Orleans and attend the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for undergrad where she started her clinical research career in internal medicine, and graduated with a BS in Biological Anthropology. After working for several years in clinical research she got her MS in Biology from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, then moved to Philadelphia where she worked as a clinical researcher at the University of Pennsylvania in Cardiothoracic Surgery. After a few years at Penn, Melody moved to Los Angeles to focus more on her career, where she continued her research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, eventually finding her niche at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology. Eventually, it came time to push her career forward, and Melody moved back home to New Orleans to work in the Department of Pediatrics/Medicine, Section of Hematology-Oncology, at Tulane University School of Medicine. She is currently the Administrative Director of Clinical Research Operations and Regulatory Protections. While at Tulane, Melody received her second Master’s degree in Public Health and continued to pursue her PhD. Her research focuses on hemophilia, specifically, patient and caregiver preferences, using a discrete choice experiment, with time trade off methodology, under the guidance of Dr. Shi.
