Douglas Fullen, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Campus Address:
M5230 MSI 0602
1301 Catherine Road
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0602
Phone: 734/936-1856
dfullen@umich.edu
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Brief Biography
Dr. Fullen received his undergraduate degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, in 1982, a M.M.Sc. degree in Clinical Microbiology from Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia in 1986, and his M.D. degree from Emory University in 1990. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991. He served as a General Medical Officer with the United States Navy attached to the 2nd Marine Division, United States Marine Corps from 1991 to 1994. He completed his residency training in combined Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1998, and then finished a Dermatopathology Fellowship at The New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell University Weill Medical College, New York, New York in 1999.
In 1999, Dr. Fullen was a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, where he served as a staff dermatopathologist. In 2000, he joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a Clinical Assistant Professor. He was appointed to Director of Histology in 2001, in addition to his responsibilities as a staff dermatopathologist.
PublicationsFullen DR, Headington JT. Factor XIIIa-positive dermal dendritic cells and HLA-DR expression in radical versus vertical-growth phase melanomas. J Cutan Pathol 1998:553-558.
Judd WJ, Fullen Dr, Steiner EA, Davenport R, Knafl PC.
Revisiting the issue: can the reading for serologic reactivity following
37°C incubation be omitted? Transfusion 1999:39:295-299.
Fullen DR, Reed JA, Finnerty B, McNutt NS: S100 A6 expression in fibrohistiocytic lesions. J Cutan Pathol (in press).
Fullen DR, Reed JA, Finnerty BF, McNutt NS: S100 A6 preferentially labels type C nevus cells and nevic corpuscles: additional support for Schwannian differentiation of dermal nevi. J Cutan Pathol (in press).