Hayley Arceneaux
Physician Assistant, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Participant, SpaceX Inspiration4 Mission
Hayley Arceneaux is a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where she was treated as a child and which she will represent on the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission to space. Arceneaux was ten years old when she was diagnosed with bone cancer, then underwent chemotherapy and surgery at St. Jude. She became an ambassador for the organization, volunteering as a “gratitude administrator” in the Blood Donor Center and sharing her story to raise funds and awareness. In 2013, she returned as a summer intern in the Pediatric Oncology Education program, and after obtaining her physician assistant degree in 2016, she now works with leukemia and lymphoma patients as a bilingual care provider.