Email: | cdohert@tcd.ie |
Institution: | Trinity College Dublin |
Disease Areas: | Epilepsy |
Nationality: | Irish |
Thematic Area: | eHealth |
Areas of expertise: | Basic, Clinical and Epileptology |
Traumatic brain injury | |
Brain Imaging | |
Cognitive Disorders |
Colin Doherty is the Ellen Mayston Bates Chair in Epileptology at Trinity College Dublin School of Health Sciences. He was appointed head of school of Medicine in TCD in 2021. His undergraduate degree was awarded by UCD (1991) and he trained in Medicine and Neurology at St Vincent’s and Beaumont Hospitals, Dublin and later at the Partners Neurology Residency Programme at Harvard Medical School, Boston (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts general Hospital) where he was Chief Resident in 2001). He then completed Fellowships in Epilepsy and Cognition at MGH (2001-2003). He has published widely the areas of brain imaging in epilepsy, the genetics of epilepsy, functional imaging of language, dementia, clinical epileptology and brain injury. In the last few years he has become interested in the challenges of population health, health services research and care delivery in epilepsy, particularly the development of co-designing services, and service transformation driven by patient preference, digital health and virtual care. He has published recently on national issues regarding epilepsy care including; evidence-based pathways, national mortality estimates and national prescribing rates. He was a member of the Irish government’s expert group on resource allocation in the health sector (2011). He was a member of the National Clinical Effectiveness Committee in Ireland (2011-2015). He was a board member of the Health Research Board (2010-15) and is a founder member and Medical Director of Epilepsy Research Ireland (ERI. Prof. Doherty leads several projects in FutureNeuro across Diagnostics and e-Health. He is FutureNeuro lead on the EMPOWER Spoke and runs industry projects with S3 and UCB.