Chair for the Department of Internal Medicine

Debabrata Mukherjee, M.D., is the chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. Prior to this, he held the position of the Gill Foundation professor of interventional cardiology, professor of internal medicine, and the director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the University of Kentucky and the director of the peripheral interventional program at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Mukherjee received his internal medicine training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology, also at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr Mukherjee also completed a master's in clinical research (M.S.) at the University of Michigan and a certificate in business administration at the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business.

Dr. Mukherjee has received the American College of Cardiology Career Development Grant, the Joseph Cash Memorial Award for excellence in health outcome research and the Cardiovascular Center McKay Research Grant for peripheral arterial disease. He has been named as one of the Best Doctors in America for several years. Dr. Mukherjee has been an invited lecturer at several major national and international meetings, has authored over 600 publications with an H-index of 83 (Google Scholar), edited 20 textbooks on cardiovascular diseases, and written more than 100 textbook chapters.

He presently serves on several journal editorial boards and is editor in chief for Biomarker Insights and Current Vascular Pharmacology. He is a long-standing fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology, the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions and the International College of Angiology. In 2020, Dr Mukherjee received the American College of Cardiology Distinguished Fellowship Award for his extensive work as a clinician, educator and scientist and in 2023 received the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions designation (Master Interventionalist of the Society (MSCAI)), having demonstrated excellence in the field over his career, manifested by a commitment to the highest levels of clinical care, innovation, publication, and teaching.  Dr Mukherjee has been named on the World's Top 2% of Scientists List since 2022.