Raj Mukherjee, MD, MPH

Physician’s Office Phone

410-550-3367

Professional Titles

• Director of Neurosurgical Oncology, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
• Assistant Program Director, Neurosurgery Residency Program

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research
• Comprehensive Brain Tumor Center
• Pituitary Center
• Radiosurgery Center
• Science of Learning Institute
• Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Von Hippel-Lindau Clinical Care Center

Videos

• Debraj "Raj" Mukherjee | Neurosurgeon

• Unexpected Meningioma Brain Tumor Discovered | Peter‚Äôs Story

• What to Expect After Brain Surgery | Recorded Webinar

Recent News Articles and Media Coverage

• Video Case Presentation: Resection of a Large Cerebillopontine Angle Meningioma via the Retrosigmoid Approach

  Optimizing Patient Quality-of-Life Following Pituitary Adenoma Surgery, Webinar by the Pituitary Tumor Association (2/16/2022)

  Video: The Journal of Neuro-Oncology & Lenox Hill Neurosurgery Present: Tumor Talk (8/11/2020)

  Surgery May Add Years for Patients With Deadly Brain Cancer: Study, HealthDay (Jan. 20, 2020)

  Glioblastoma Foundation Brainstem GBM Description and Clinical Trial | JHMC with Dr. Mukherjee

Additional Academic Titles

Associate Professor of Oncology, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences

Research Interests

Big data, Clinical Trials, Cost-effectiveness, Health Services Research, Medical Decision Making, Patient Centered Outcomes Research, Quality of Life, Surgical Trials

Lab Website

Neuro-Oncology Surgical Outcomes Laboratory - Lab Website

• Directed by Debraj "Raj" Mukherjee, MD, MPH, the laboratory focuses on improving access to care, reducing disparities, maximizing surgical outcomes, and optimizing quality of life for patients with brain and skull base tumors. The laboratory achieves these aims by creating and analyzing institutional and national databases, developing and validating novel patient-centered quality of life instruments, leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence platforms to risk-stratify vulnerable patient populations, and designing novel surgical trials to push the boundaries of neurosurgical innovation. Our research also investigates novel approaches to improve neurosurgical medical education including studying the utility of video-based surgical coaching and the design of new operative instrumentation.

Research Summary

Dr. Mukherjee’s research emphasizes the development of individual treatment plans that optimize survival and quality-in-life in all brain tumor patients. His work involves the development of patient-centered, disease-specific quality-of-life instruments in order to quantify disease burden and to help patients make informed treatment decisions. With formalized training in biostatistics, epidemiology, and in clinical trial design, Dr. Mukherjee leads institutional and national efforts focus on the creation of brain tumor patient registries and adaptive clinical trials in neurosurgery. He also has an expertise in big data analytics and health policy, mining national datasets to determine national trends and disparities in neurosurgical care.

PubMed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=debraj+mukherjee

Selected Publications

• Mukherjee D, Nuno M, Patil CG. Helicopter vs ground transportation for patients with trauma. JAMA. 2012 Aug8;308(6):564-5.

• Mukherjee D, Patil CG, Palestrant D. Amantadine for severe traumatic brain injury. N Engl J Med. 2012Jun21;366(25):2427.

• Mukherjee D, Sarmiento JM, Ly D, Nuno MA, Patil CG. Everolimus for subependymal giant cell astrocytomas associated with tuberous sclerosis complex. Lancet. 2013 Apr 13;381(9874):1274-5

• Nuno M, Mukherjee D, Elramsisy A, Nosova K, Lad SP, Boakye M, Yu JS, Black KL, Patil CG. Racial and Gender Disparities and the Role of Primary Tumor Type on Inpatient Outcomes Following Craniotomy for Brain Metastases. Ann Surg Oncol. 2012 Aug;19(8):2657-63.

• Purohit A, Jha R, Khalafallah AM, Price C, Rowan NR, Mukherjee D. Endoscopic endonasal versus transcranial approach to resection of olfactory groove meningiomas: a systematic review. Neurosurg Rev. 2019 Nov 10. doi: 10.1007/s10143-019-01193-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 31709465.

Courses & Syllabi

• Fundamentals of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Department of Neurosurgery, 1/1/16 - 1/1/17
• Complex Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 1/1/17
• Open and Endoscopic Endonasal Approached to the Skull Base, Stryker Mobile Cadaveric Laboratory, 1/1/17
• Comprehensive Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery of the Skull Base, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 1/1/17
• Complex Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery of the Skull Base, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 1/1/18

Honors

• Baltimore Magazine Top Doctor 2024
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons Health Policy Scholarship for 2019, American College of Physicians, 3/28/19
• David C. Leach Award for graduate medical teaching, ACGME, 10/1/18
• Resident Leadership Award, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 7/19/18
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Johns Hopkins University, 1/1/18
• Resident/Fellow Jeopardy Champion, North American Skull Base Society, 1/1/18
• Resident Research Award, California Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1/1/17
• Distinguished Young Alumni Award, Dartmouth Medical School, 1/1/17
• Distinguished Fellow Award, American Association of Physicians of Indian Origins (AAPI), 1/1/16
• Endowed Fellowship, Sports Spectacular, 1/1/16
• Seed Grant, American Medical Association (AMA), 1/1/15
• Young Investigator Award, Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics, 1/1/15
• Leadership and Advocacy Scholar, American College of Surgeons, 1/1/15
• Loan Repayment Program Award, National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, 1/1/14
• Health and Society Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1/1/14

Lectures & Presentations

• Development and Validation of a Checklist for External Ventricular Drain Placement in Neurosurgery, Oral Presentation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Madison, WI, 12/1/14
• Disparities in Neurosurgical Care Across the United States, Oral Presentation, Seminar Series, University of Wisconsin Department of Population Health Sciences, Madison, WI, 3/28/16
• Extent of Resection Threshold for Recurrent Glioblastoma, Oral Presentation, California Association of Neurological Surgeons, Monterey, CA, 1/19/14
• Microsurgical Anatomy of the Brainstem Safe Entry Zones: A Cadaveric Study with High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Fiber Tracking, Oral Presentation, Society of Brain Mapping and Therapeutics, Miami Beach, FL, 4/9/16
• See One, Do One, Teach One: New Paradigms in Neurosurgical Education, Oral Presentation, Semiar Series, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Madison, WI, 4/4/16

Memberships

• American Congress of Neurosurgeons
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons
• North American Skull Base Society
• American College of Surgeons
• American Medical Association
• American Society of Clinical Oncology
• Society of Neuro-Oncology

Professional Activities

• American Association of Neurological Surgeons Young Neurosurgeons Committee, Medical Student Division Director
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Leadership Fellow
• National Institutes of Health, Loan Repayment Ambassador
• NeuroPoint Alliance (NPA), Core Education Working Group
• Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation, Fellowship Selection Committee
• New England Journal of Medicine, Ad Hoc Reviewer