Background
Dohms was the son of Herbert S. and Jean E. (née Pardee) Dohms of Crystal Falls, Michigan.
Professor of Microbiology of Infectious Diseases
Dohms was the son of Herbert S. and Jean E. (née Pardee) Dohms of Crystal Falls, Michigan.
He graduated from Fair Lawn High School (Fair Lawn, New Jersey) in 1966. He then studied at and graduated from Bowling Green State University with Bachelor of Surgery (1970) and Master of Surgery (1972) degrees in biology and went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy in Veterinary Microbiology from The Ohio State University in 1977, writing a thesis under the direction of Y. M. Saif.
M. M. Dohms was an avid athlete and outdoorsman, and an All-American lacrosse player while a student at Bowling Green State University. Suffering from a form of dementia, Dohms disappeared from his home in Newark, Delaware, on September 13, 2012. Despite an exhaustive police search, Dohms could not be located.
A hiker discovered human remains in a wooded area on February 28, 2014, that were identified as belonging to Dohms.
He was remembered by his former colleagues who arranged for the placement of a memorial marker near the location where his remains were discovered.
He was a member of the faculty in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences at the University of Delaware from 1977 to 2009 and held the rank of Professor of Microbiology of Infectious Diseases.
