Kenney Marie Dixon-Pickens Distinguished Professorship in Multiple Sclerosis Research Irene Wadel and Robert I. Atha, Jr., Distinguished Chair in Neurology, in Honor of Elliot Frohman, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Frohman is a Professor with tenure with the Departments of Neurology and Ophthalmology, holder of the Kenney Marie Dixon-Pickens Distinguished Professorship in Multiple Sclerosis Research and the Irene Wadel and Robert Atha Distinguished Chair in Neurology and Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Program in the Department of Neurology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Frohman was born in New York City and received his undergraduate training in biochemistry and cell biology at the University of California at San Diego and later completed the Physician Scientist Training Program for his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California at Irvine. Dr. Frohman subsequently completed his residency and fellowship training in neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Hospital where he is a former Chief Resident. He is Board certified in psychiatry and neurology. Dr. Frohman has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in the areas of neuroimmunology and neuro-ophthalmology. He was the author of a United States Congressional Appropriations Bill in 2001 that established a comprehensive multiple sclerosis treatment training program at the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine in collaboration with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. To date this program has trained in excess of 800 physicians from all 50 states. He serves as a reviewer for numerous journals including Annals of Neurology, Neurology, Archives of Neurology, Journal of Neurological Sciences, Brain, Lancet, Journal of Neuroimmunology, NeuroImage, and Neuro-Ophthalmology. Dr. Frohman is married to Teresa Frohman (his principal research collaborator). They have four children and live in Coppell, Texas.
