Dr. Clemons holds PhD and Masters level degrees in Biostatistics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Prior to joining EMMES in 1999, Dr. Clemons was an Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health. At EMMES, Dr. Clemons serves as Principal Investigator for numerous Statistical and Data Coordinating Centers sponsored by the government and private pharmaceutical corporations in a variety of disease areas, such as age related macular degeneration, cataract, macular telangiectasia, and autism spectrum disorders.

Dr. Clemons has been an active scientific voting member of The EMMES Corporation's Institutional Review Board since 2000. Dr. Clemons is also a member of a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Biology Subcommittee and the Genomic and Proteomic Network for Premature Birth Research Advisory Board. She also serves as the Chairperson for the Data Safety Monitoring Board for the Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers.

Dr. Clemons is active in protocol design and implementation, statistical analyses, form design and development, and developing and writing study reports, abstracts and manuscripts for publications. Dr. Clemons also has numerous peer reviewed professional publications to her credit.