Dr. Debraj “Raj” Mukherjee is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins
Medicine with a clinical focus on the treatment of patients with brain cancer. He has
facilitated a workshop-based educational and wellness-focused series entitled the Peace Education Program (PEP) for physicians, patients, trainees, students, and community members for many years. These efforts have been funded by numerous grants, including support from the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and Johns Hopkins Center for Humanizing Medicine. He has studied the efficacy of PEP, finding that participants have significantly improved wellness after attending the course.
After receiving his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School as a C. Everett Koop
Scholar, Dr. Mukherjee was recruited to Johns Hopkins, where he studied epidemiology,
biostatistics, and clinical trial design at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health as a Sommer Scholar and Albert Schweitzer Fellow. He 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 within the Center for Skull Base Surgery at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he was a Copeland Scholar.
