Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, US
Dr. Debraj “Raj” Mukherjee’s clinical focus is the treatment of patients with primary and metastatic brain lesions. His clinical work and research emphasize the development of individual treatment plans that optimize survival and quality of life in all patients.
After receiving his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School, Dr. Mukherjee was recruited to Johns Hopkins, where he studied epidemiology, biostatistics and clinical design at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and served as co-director of the Neuro-Oncology Surgical Outcomes Laboratory in the Department of Neurosurgery.
Dr. Mukherjee completed neurosurgery residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and an open/endoscopic skull base fellowship at the Center for Skull Base Surgery at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. During this time, Dr. Mukherjee continued his patient-centered research pursuits, developing a national registry for patients with brain tumors and creating a disease-specific quality of life instrument for patients with skull base meningiomas. He currently serves at Assistant Program Director for the neurosurgery residency training program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research has been supported by the American Medical Association and National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Mukherjee can be contacted at drraj@jhmi.edu.