A/Prof sutapa mukherjee
adelaide institute for sleep health
A/Prof Sutapa Mukherjee is a sleep physician and epidemiologist with extensive experience of large-scale collaborative projects including cohort studies and multi-centre clinical trials. Her medical degree was awarded by the University of Adelaide in 1989 (MBBS), followed by FRACP in 1996 (Thoracic Medicine), 2005 (Sleep Medicine), and a PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2002.
A/Prof Mukherjee relocated to Adelaide in 2014 from Toronto, where she was Director of Sleep Medicine (Women’s College Hospital, Toronto), Assistant Professor (University of Toronto) & Clinical Lead for the Ontario Health Study; a large cohort of 230,000 individuals. She is currently the President of the Australasian Sleep Association, Associate Professor in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Flinders University and Clinical Lead in Research, Respiratory and Sleep Service, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, SA Health. A/Prof Mukherjee’s primary research interests lie in contributing to the understanding of sleep apnoea, including clinical trials.
In June 2020 A/Prof Mukherjee was elected by her peers to Co-Chair the Guideline Leadership Group of the National Covid-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce (NCCET), during which she was directly responsible for assessing evidence on Covid-19 management and therapy with direct translation into new guidelines.
A/Prof Mukherjee regularly gives public lectures (including to parents and children about the importance of healthy sleep), radio interviews, and educational activities and provides mentoring and advice on career progression to early career researchers and women in medicine.