Assoc ProfessorMark Doherty

Dr. Mark Doherty graduated from University College Dublin in 2006, having been a medical student here at St Vincent’s University Hospital. Following internship here at SVUH, he completed Basic Specialist Training in Medicine in 2008 followed Higher Specialist Training in Medical Oncology in 2015. This was followed by a Clinical Fellowship in Medical Oncology at the Princess Margaret Hospital, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2017, he was awarded a Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the University of Toronto. Following this, he was appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, and Staff Medical Oncologist at Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto from 2017 to 2020. In 2020, he returned to Ireland to an appointment as a Consultant Medical Oncologist at St Vincent’s Hospital Group, to treat patients with sarcoma and neuroendocrine tumours.

His research focus is on developing therapeutic clinical trials, using observational data to better understand treatment responses, and learning from patient-reported outcomes to optimise clinical care. He has numerous publications on these topics, and has presented widely both nationally and internationally. He has a strong track record in teaching and supervising trainees, and was the head of the University of Toronto medical resident rotation in medical oncology at the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre. He is the site lead for St. Vincent's University Hospital in the UCD Cancer Trials Cluster and is an active clinical trial investigator.