Professor Doherty is the Head of School of Medicine and holds the Ellen Mayston Bates Chair in Epileptology at Trinity College Dublin. He was a consultant neurologist at St James’s hospital for 15 years when he joined the staff of TCD in the Academic Unit of Neurology in 2020. He has clinical and research interests in the areas of brain imaging, clinical epileptology, Traumatic Brain Injury and Digital Health.
Professor Doherty completed his undergraduate degree at University College Dublin in 1991. 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 Massachusetts General Hospital (2001-2003).
‘The Neurobiology of Drawing‘ – June 2025
Colin comes from a family of Artists and Musicians and has always maintained an interest in the intersection or rather the parallelism of Art and Science. As far as he is concerned the idea that human beings are not only curious about the world but make conjectures are the two qualities that ultimately conjoin both artists and scientists…. He believes that Robert Boyle would concur! This lecture is a scientific approach to understanding an artistic process.
