Biography
Danielle Tatum recently joined the School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery as director of research. Tatum obtained her PhD at the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine in comparative biomedical sciences with a specific focus on DNA damage and eukaryotic repair mechanisms. At Tulane’s School of Medicine she received postdoctoral training in DNA damage and repair with a focus on telomere instability. Tatum served as academic research director for a large, regional hospital’s trauma specialist program, where she developed, led and facilitated clinical research studies internally as well as with national and international collaborators for approximately seven years. Her research interests include damage control resuscitation, systemic inflammatory responses to severe injury, violence and injury prevention.
