Daphne Hodges MSN, RN, CWOCN

Daphne has been a Certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse for 18 years with experience in a variety of clinical settings including community hospitals, post-acute care, outpatient wound and ostomy clinics, home health, industry and a large teaching institution. Daphne holds the position of Program Chair for the Ostomy Association of Ventura County affiliate of the United Ostomy Association of America. She previously held positions on the Pacific Coast Region of the WOCN Society as Education Chair and Secretary between 2010-2017.

She studied nursing at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada where she graduated with her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing degree and earned her Master's of Nursing in Leadership and Management from Western Governor's University. Her nursing career began in Emergency Medicine, however her passion for wound and ostomy care motivated her successful graduation from Cleveland Clinic as a certified Enterostomal Therapist in 2004. She advanced her wound care career at Community Memorial Hospital where she developed a successful inpatient wound care program and is about to embark on opening the community's first outpatient ostomy clinic. Daphne is now the Coordinator of the Wound and Ostomy Program of Community Memorial Health System.