Dr Follis was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1908. Dr Follis received his B.S. from Yale in 1932 and his M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1936. Dr Follis was Assistant Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University (1936-1942); Associate Professor (1942-1945) Harvard (1942-1945; Associate Professor Duke (1946) and at Johns Hopkins (1946-1953). Dr Follis came to the University as Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology in 1953. Dr Follis left in 1955 to go to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Dr Follis died in 1984