Associate Director
Donnelley Family Disability Ethics Program, RIC
Assistant Professor
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Feinberg School of Medicine .
Traumatic brain injury, cross-cultural ethics, disability ethics .
Debjani Mukherjee is the Associate Director of the Donnelley Family Disability Ethics Program at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) and an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation & of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and her research and practice are informed by over 16 years of clinical experience, working in 8 hospital settings (in Buffalo; Boston; Urbana; Chicago; Paris, France; and Kolkata, India). At RIC, she facilitates the Disability Ethics Scholars program, is vice-chair of the Hospital Ethics Committee, and is an ethics consultant. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Debjani received her Bachelor's degree from Cornell University, and her Master's and Doctorate in Clinical/Community Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her thesis was entitled "Multiple perspectives, one decision: an ethnographic study of life support withdrawal after severe brain injury." Debjani completed two years of postdoctoral fellowship training in Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago and was an ethics fellow at Oak Forest Hospital of Cook County. After her fellowship, she was invited to spend a year in Paris, to help start the first center for Clinical Ethics in France, the Centre D'ethique Clinique at Cochin teaching hospital. Debjani joined the staff of the Donnelley Family Disability Ethics program in January of 2004. In the summer of that year, she participated in "disability studies and the legacies of eugenics," a summer institute for US and Canadian faculty at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany. For the 2006-2007 academic year, Debjani received a Fulbright Scholar Faculty Research Award to examine long-term adjustment to Traumatic Brain Injury in Kolkata, India. She has lectured widely on topics ranging from negotiating hyphenated identities to ethical considerations in international traumatic brain injury research. She was born in Iowa City, and is of South Asian (Indian) origin. . 312-238-1885
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