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 has completed a certificate program in quality improvement (2019-2020) through the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at 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 MCH 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.