Rate My Professor Tammy Haut Donahue

Haut Donahue specializes in analytical and experimental biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system, with a focus on the knee joint menisci and ligamentous attachments. As principal investigator, she has received approximately $14 million in research funding from sources including the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. For her pioneering research elucidating the complex structure and function of knee joint components, she was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2020. Her influential publications include "A finite element model of the human knee joint for the study of tibio-femoral contact" (Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 2002), "How the stiffness of meniscal attachments and meniscal material properties affect tibio-femoral contact pressure computed using a validated finite element model of the human knee joint" (Journal of Biomechanics, 2003), "Transversely isotropic tensile material properties of skeletal muscle tissue" (Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2010), "3D finite element model of meniscectomy: changes in joint contact behavior" (2006), and "The state of tissue hydration determines the strain-rate-sensitive stiffness of human patellar tendon" (Journal of Biomechanics, 1997). These works have advanced finite element modeling and orthopedic biomechanics research.