Dr Hodding earned a doctorate and completed her pharmacy residency at the University of California School of Pharmacy in San Francisco. She has held teaching positions as Assistant Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at UCSF as well as Assistant Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Currently, Dr Hodding is the Director, Pharmacy Services at Miller Children's Hospital in Long Beach, California.

Throughout her 24 years of pediatric pharmacy practice, Dr Hodding has actively pursued methods to improve neonatal intensive care, pediatric intensive care, pediatric hematology/oncology, and parenteral nutrition. She has published numerous articles covering neonatal medication administration and aminoglycoside and theophylline clearance in premature infants.

Dr Hodding is a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA), American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), California Society of Hospital Pharmacists (CSHP), Children's Oncology Group, and Southern California Pediatric Pharmacy Group. She is frequently an invited speaker on the topics of Monitoring Drug Therapy in the NICU, Fluid and Electrolyte Therapy in Children, Drug Therapy Considerations in Children, and Parenteral Nutrition in the Premature Infant.