Timothy J. Doherty, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)

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Dr. Doherty completed an undergraduate degree in Physical Education (University of New Brunswick, 1986) and graduate degrees in Kinesiology (MSc Dalhousie 1989, PhD Western 1993) prior to completing undergraduate medicine at McMaster. He went on to complete residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at McMaster (2000). Dr. Doherty joined the Department in 2004.

Dr. Doherty is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Clinical Neurological Sciences and Rehabilitation Medicine at Western University. He is a consultant physiatrist at both London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph's Health Care and medical director of the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Program, Parkwood Hospital, St. Joseph's Health Care. He was awarded as Canada Research Chair in Neuromuscular Function in Health, Aging, and Disease in 2005. In 2017 he was reappointed to the position of Chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Western University

Dr. Doherty is Past President of the Canadian Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, examiner for the Canadian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, a Scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute and the Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging and is member of the Editorial Board of Muscle and Nerve.

Dr. Doherty's main clinical interest is clinical neurophysiology. He is a consultant electromyographer in the EMG clinics at London Health Sciences Centre.

He is actively involved in the rehabilitation management of patients with neuromuscular disease with specific interests in muscle disease and hereditary neuropathy.

Dr. Doherty is also a consultant physiatrist at the inpatient Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Program and Stroke Rehabilitation Program at Parkwood Hospital.