Amit Mukerji

Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Dr. Amit Mukerji is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University and is a staff neonatologist.

He has received an Early Career Award (2019-2021) from Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation to support his work on non-invasive respiratory support strategies towards improved lung health outcomes in preterm neonates. He has a Master of Science degree in clinical epidemiology (2017) from the University of Toronto and completed a certificate program in quality improvement (2019-2020) through the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the University of Toronto. He has published >25 articles in peer-reviewed journals (as of September 2022) since joining the faculty as first/corresponding author, mostly in the realm of neonatal respiratory support/management and outcomes.

He formed and chairs the PRVENT-BPD working group at the McMaster Children's Hospital (MCH) neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), aimed at standardizing practices towards preventing BPD, is the respiratory lead physician for the MCH NICU, and is the national co-chair of the Lung Health Group of the EPIQ (Evidence-Based Practice for Improvement in Quality) initiative.