Dr. Fergus Coakley is the chair of Diagnostic Radiology at Oregon Health and Sciences University. He joined OHSU in August 2012 from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where he was a professor in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging in the UCSF School of Medicine, where he was also chief of the Abdominal Imaging Section and vice chair for Clinical Services. He holds an honorary appointment as a professor in residence in the Department of Urology.
Dr. Coakley is from Cork, Ireland. He took his medical degree from the School of Medicine at University College Cork, Ireland. He completed internship at Mercy Hospital in Cork, medical residency at Mater and St. Vincent’s Hospitals in Dublin, and radiology residency at Leicester teaching Hospitals in Leicester, England. He did a fellowship in body imaging at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center before joining UCSF. He also spent a year as assistant professor and director, body MRI, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
Dr. Coakley is involved in teaching at all levels, from medical students to postgraduates. He was program director of two postgraduate training programs at UCSF – a joint abdominal imaging fellowship between UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco General Hospital and San Francisco VA Medical Center, and a T32 training grant from the NIH, which he secured in 2005 and which was renewed through 2015. Dr. Coakley’s main research interest is the potential of MR-guided high intensity focused ultrasound for cancer therapy and tumor ablation.
His department chair at UCSF credits Dr. Coakley for bringing this technology and technique to UCSF Medical Center. He is widely published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is an expert in CT radiation dose, MR-guided high intensity focused ultrasound and MRI of prostate cancer.
Read the updated guidelines for the use of MRI in the Diagnosis, Staging and Management of Prostate Cancer as referenced by Dr. Coakley here:
https://www.auanet.org/guidelines/guidelines/mri-of-the-prostate-sop
His advice to students? Be good at what you do.