Dr. Doty attended medical school at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and then completed residency at the SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital EM program, where he eventually served as the Program Director, helping build that program into the largest Emergency Medicine training program in the world. 

In 2012, Dr. Doty transitioned to the University of Kentucky where he served as the Vice Chair and the Program Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine.  He ended his 15-year tenure as a Program Director in 2017 to focus on his roles as the incoming President of the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD EM) and Vice Chair at UK.  He is a tenured Professor in the UK College of Medicine. 

His efforts have refocused the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Kentucky towards excellence in medical education, faculty development, and patient care.  His professional interests include: medical education, mentorship, physician resiliency, creating learner-centered educational models, acute decompensated heart failure treatments, and cognitive errors. Most recently, he has championed the effort of creating wellbeing and resiliency in Emergency Physicians.

Dr. Doty served as the President of the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine from 2018 – 2019 and spent 6 years on the Board of Directors of CORD.  He has won several national teaching and leadership awards and is a career-educator in Emergency Medicine.

For AAEM, he has been active on many academy committees including the Education Committee and the Scientific Assembly Planning Committee, where he served as the co-chair of the Planning Committee for several years. Most recently, he has served as the senior advisor for the SA Planning Committee.  In 2020, Dr. Doty was recognized as a Master of the Academy (MAAEM).