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.
Paulina Arnold joins Tulane Law School as a Forrester Fellow after working as a movement lawyer at CASA, a grassroots immigrant advocacy organization. Her research focuses on the intersection of immigration and prison law — including civil detention, habeas and constitutional law. She received her BA from Yale College and her JD from Harvard Law School. After law school, Arnold clerked for the Hon. Paul A. Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Hon. Cornelia T.L. Pillard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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.
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.
Marissa Spencer is a board-certified pathology assistant who is joining the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as a faculty instructor for Tulane’s pathologists assistant program. Spencer has experience in surgical and autopsy pathology as well as leadership experience as a previous laboratory supervisor.
Dr. Alexandra Blaney received a DVM from the University of California – Davis before completing a residency in laboratory animal medicine at Stanford University. Blaney joined the Tulane National Primate Research Center as a clinical veterinarian in May.
Manesh Kumar Panner Selvam recently joined the School of Medicine as a research instructor in the Department of Urology. He received his PhD in animal biotechnology from the Madras Veterinary College in Chennai, India, and completed four years of a postdoctoral fellowship in andrology at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. His research focus has been in reproductive biology, with expertise in sperm and seminal plasma proteomics.
Michael Shammas recently finished a clerkship with the Hon. Ronald L. Gilman of the Sixth Circuit. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 2016, he worked as a Paul, Weiss litigator before completing a clerkship in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, and an NYU Law fellowship.
