Dr. Gerard Doherty has served as the surgeon-in-chief at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School since 2016. He is an acclaimed endocrine surgeon and graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and the Yale School of Medicine. He completed residency training at the University of California San Francisco, including medical staff fellowship at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Doherty initially joined Washington University School of Medicine and ultimately served as professor of surgery there, and then as the Norman W. Thompson Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan, and the James Utley Professor at Boston University. In those roles he was also the head of general surgery and program director for the training program at Michigan, and the surgeon-in-chief and program director at Boston Medical Center.
Dr. Doherty was trained in surgical oncology and has practiced the breadth of that specialty. Over the past two decades, he has focused mainly on surgical diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, endocrine pancreas, and adrenal glands, and the surgical management of multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes. He has devoted substantial effort to medical student and resident education policy. He has more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and book chapters, and several edited books.
Dr. Doherty currently serves as past-president of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons, and the Society of Surgical Chairs. He is treasurer of the International Society of Surgery, and reviews editor of JAMA Surgery.
