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 Director of the Neuro-Oncology Surgical Outcomes Laboratory in the Department of Neurosurgery.
Dr. Mukherjee completed neurosurgery residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar. He completed an open and endoscopic skull base fellowship with the Center for Skull Base Surgery at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he was a Copeland Scholar.
Throughout his career, Dr. Mukherjee has led patient-centered research pursuits in neuro-oncology including development of a national registry for patients with brain tumors, creation of disease-specific quality of life instruments for patients with skull base tumors, and development of innovative clinical trials in neuro-oncology.
He leads the Meningioma, Brain Metastasis, and Neurosurgical Oncology centers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, and he serves as Assistant Residency Program Director for one of the largest neurosurgical training programs in the country. His work has been supported by the American Medical Association, Glioblastoma Foundation, National Institute on Aging, and National Cancer Institute.
Education
- Fellowship: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 2018
- Residency: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Neurosurgery, 2017
- Graduate School: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MPH, 2008
- Medical Education: Dartmouth College School of Medicine, MD, 2007
Board Certifications
- Neurological Surgery: American Board of Neurological Surgery, 2021
Contact info:
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
301 Mason Lord Drive, Suite 1201, Baltimore, MD 21224
410-550-3367
dmukher1@jhmi.edu