Following graduation from Harvard Medical School in 1961, Dr. Dohan trained for two years in internal medicine on the Cornell service at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. He then served as a research associate at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, after which he was a research fellow, first at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. After serving as a staff member in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he did research in brain tumor immunology, he trained in anatomic pathology at the same institution. He received his training in neuropathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Children's Hospital Medical Center. After working on the staff of the Children's Hospital Medical Center, he came to Memphis in 1984, and he has served since then as Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Director of the Division of Neuropathology.

Research Interests:

Dr. Dohan's research interests have focused on brain tumors and epilepsy. He is currently developing a research program involving the neuropathology and pathophysiology of schizophrenia, particularly as they relate to its connection with celiac disease.

Selected Publications:

1. Dohan, F.C., Jr., Dohan, P.H., Harper, E.H.: Gluten and schizophrenia (letter). British Medical Journal (bmj.com), March 26, 2004
2. Looney, M.R., Dohan, F.C., Jr., Davies, K.G., Seidenberg, M., Hermann, B.P., Schweitzer, J.B.: Synaptophysin immunoreactivity in temporal lobe epilepsy-associated hippocampal sclerosis. Acta Neuropathologica 98:179-185, 1999
3. Wyler, A.R., Dohan, F.C., Jr., Schweitzer, J.B., and Berry, A.D., III: A grading system for mesial temporal pathology (hippocampal sclerosis) from anterior temporal lobectomy. J. Epilepsy. 5:220-225, 1992
4. Dohan, F.C., Jr., Kornblith, P.L., Wellum, G.R., Pfeiffer, S.E., and Levine, L.: S-100 protein and 2', 3'-cyclic nucleotide 3' phosphohydrolase in human brain tumors. Acta Neuropathologica 40:123-128, 1977
5. Kornblith, P.L., Dohan, F.C., Jr., Wood, W.C., and Whitman, B.O.: Human astrocytoma: Serum-mediated immunologic response. Cancer 33:1512-1519, 1974
6. Dohan, F.C., Jr., Rubman, R.H., and Torriani, A.: In vitro synthesis of Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase monomers. J. Mol. Biol. 58:469-479, 1971