Michael Doherty, M.D.

Dr. Michael Doherty is a Neurologist who specializes in Epilepsy care. He joined the Swedish Neuroscience Institute in 2003 and is the Medical Director of our Epilepsy program. Dr. Doherty works closely with Swedish’s multidisciplinary epilepsy team on state of the art therapies. Specific interests include special needs populations, medication management during pregnancy, new onset seizure, hard-to-treat epilepsy and neurostimulation or surgical treatments of epilepsy. in his free time he enjoys clinical research, reading, fly-fishing, studying the history of neurology and time spent with his family. Dr. Doherty was selected by Seattle Magazine as a Top Doctor in the field of Neurology.