Originally from New Jersey, Dr. Michael Caposole earned a bachelor’s degree at Drexel University, a master’s degree at Rutgers University and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine. Caposole recently completed surgery residency at the University of South Alabama in Mobile.
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.
Dr. Samir Anadkat graduated from Baroda Medical College, Maharaja Sayajirao University, in 1994. After completing a one-year internship, he joined the same medical school as a junior lecturer in anatomy. While teaching first-year medical students, he completed his postgraduate training and also earned a Master of Surgery. At Medical University of the Americas (West Indies) Anadkat has taught courses on gross anatomy, histology, embryology and neuroscience as well as foundations of clinical medicine, research literature review and analysis, and various systems and diseases courses.
Tina O'Grady joins the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She received her PhD from Tulane’s biomedical sciences program and completed her postdoctoral training as a Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique “Chargé de Recherches” fellow at the GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium.
Jun-yuan Ji received a BSc in cell biology in 1994 from Lanzhou University and an MSc in developmental biology from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1997. He obtained a PhD in zoology from the University of Washington in 2003, studying the role of CDK1-Cyclin B in regulating the early embryonic cycles in Drosophila. From 2004 to 2009, Ji was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, where he studied mechanisms that control the G1 to S-phase cell-cycle transition.
Dr. Wael Almajed acquired his medical degree at King Saud University in Riyadh. Subsequently he joined McGill University’s (Canada) urology program. He began his fellowship training in andrology this year.
Dr. Krystal J. Vail joins the Tulane National Primate Research Center as a pathologist. She received her DVM from Tuskegee University, after which she joined Texas A&M University to complete her residency and PhD. Her areas of interest include understanding host immune factors that contribute to disease outcomes during intracellular bacterial infections.
