Prior to joining Tulane, Dr. Thannickal was a professor of medicine and pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB); the Ben Vaughan Branscomb Chair of Medicine in Respiratory Disease; director of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care; and vice chair for research, Department of Medicine. He has held faculty positions at Tufts University School of Medicine, and University of Michigan.
Dr. Thannickal currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Investigation (Consulting Editor), as well those of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and the American Journal of Pathology; and is an associate editor of the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology.
