Doty, M.D., FACS, FICS (born 1 December 1955) is a Clinical Professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, an affiliate of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.
He is the New York Times bestselling author of "Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart" published by Penguin Random House on February 2, 2016.
It has been translated into 31 languages.
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Doty is also the Senior Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science (2017).