Professor
Endowed Title: Irene Wadel and Robert I. Atha, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Neurology, in Honor of Elliot Frohman, M.D., Ph.D.; Kenney Marie Dixon-Pickens Distinguished Professorship in Multiple Sclerosis Research
Department: Neurology & Neurotherapeutics, Ophthalmology
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 150 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 900 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.
| Graduate School | University of California at Irvine (1988), Neurobiology |
| Medical School | University of California, Irvine - College of Medicine (1990) |
| Internship | University of Tennessee College of Medicine (1991), Internal Medicine |
| Residency | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (1994), Neurology |
| Fellowship | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (1995), Neurophysiology |
Featured Publications
Imaging retinal architecture in multiple sclerosis with optical coherence tomography.
Frohman, E.M., Fujimoto, J.G., Frohman, T.C., Calabresi, P.A., Cutter, G., Balcer, L. Nature Neurology 2008 4 664-675
Modeling the pathophysiology of Uhthoff?s phenomenon in multiple sclerosis
Davis, S., Frohman, T.C., Brown, M., Mills, D., Crandall, C., Stuve, O., Frohman, E.M. Neurology 2008 70 1098-1106
Retinal Imaging by Laser Polarimetry and optical coherence tomography Evidence of Axonal Degeneration in MS.
Zaveri, M, Conger, A, Frohman, TC, Galetta, SL, Cutter, GR, Maguire, MG, Calabresi, PA, Balcer, LJ, Frohman, EM. Arch Neurol 2008 65 924-928
Multiple Sclerosis: The plaque and its pathogenesis
Frohman, E.M., Raine, C. Racke, M.K. New England Journal of Medicine 2006 354 942-955
The utility of MRI in suspeced MS. The Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Committee of the American Academy of Neurology.
Frohman, E.M., Goodin, D., Calabresi, P., et al Neurology 2003 61 602-611
Primary retinal pathology in multiple sclerosis as detected by optical coherence tomography
Saidha, S, MRCPI; Syc, SB, Eckstein, C, et al. Brain in press
Longitudinal study of vision and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness by OCT in multiple sclerosis.
Talman, LS; Sackel, DJ, Long, D, Jr, et al. Ann Neurol 2010 67 749-760
Transverse Myelitis.
Frohman, EM, Wingerchuk, D. New Engl J Med 2010 363 564-572
A Randomized, Blinded, Parallel-Group, Pilot Trial of Mycophenolate Mofetil (Cellcept?) Compared to Interferon beta-1a (Avonex?) in Patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis.
Frohman, EM, Cutter, G, Remington, G, et al. G Ther Adv Neurol Dis 2010 3 15-28
Imaging retinal architecture in multiple sclerosis with optical coherence tomography.
Frohman, E.M., Fujimoto, J.G., Frohman, T.C., Calabresi, P.A., Cutter, G., Balcer, L. Nature Neurology 2008 4 664-675.