Dr Sally Doherty
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, RCSI-Bahrain
sdoherty@rcsi-mub.com
sallydoherty@rcsi.ie
Office +973 16660132
Area of expertise
- Lecturer in undergraduate medical and nursing programs.
- Researcher interested in local health topics, obesity, diabetes, breast cancer & patient psychosocial needs
- Supervisor in the Institute of Leadership Master’s program
- Development of curriculum, assessment and student wellbeing
Research interests
Cardiovascular disease, cardiac rehab and sexual counselling, heart failure, behaviour change models and health psychology, research summer school.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Ulster: Childhood Trauma and Parental Psychopathology – Associations with Adult Alcohol Addiction - A Latent Class Approach 2008
- Masters in Healthcare Ethics and Law. First Class Honours degree. What would Aristotle say about the mental health of medical students? 2017
- BSc. (Hons) Psychology, First Class Honours Degree, University of Ulster Dissertation thesis: Mental and Physical Health in Students: The Role of Self-efficacy, Personality and Exercise 2005
- HRB funded Postdoctoral researcher and Co PI in NUI Galway - Sexual assessment and counselling in cardiac rehabilitation 2009-2018
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sally_Doherty for access to publications
Current area of activity:
- Director of assessment and exams
- Deputy convener of research ethics committee
- Active researcher with recent grants awarded for diabetes and cancer research
- Active member of THEP for phase one and two curriculum development
- Admission interviews
- Supervision of master’s thesis in IOL