A condolence meeting was held under the chairmanship of Prof Jagat Ram, Director PGI on Monday to pay homage to the departed soul of Dr KK Mukherjee, Professor of Neurosurgery who passed away on June 17. He was at a conference in Bengaluru and could not survive a massive heart attack.
Senior neurosurgeons, neurologists, general surgeons, former HODs and Professors, PGI faculty members, the administrative staff and resident doctors joined in to mourn his death.
Jagat Ram, Director, PGIMER recounted the achievements of Dr Mukherjee and said his loss was a loss of the Institute and the patients. Prof SK Gupta, Head, Department of Neurosurgery said they all should come together and do something special in his memory. Prof Vivek lal, Head, Department of Neurology informed the audience about Dr. Mukherjee’s professional excellence. Dr Mukherjee’s teacher Prof VK Kak, former HOD, Neurosurgery PGI and Director Principal of GMCH-32 mourned the loss of the eminent neurosurgeon.
Born on December 6, 1965, he did his MBBS from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune In 1989 and obtained his MS (General Surgery) degree from PGIMER, Chandigarh in 1994. He did his M.Ch in Neurosurgery from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, lucknow in 1997. He worked as a senior lecturer in Neurosurgery at Government Medical College and hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh for a brief period. He joined as permanent faculty in the Department of Neurosurgery at PGIMER, Chandigarh in 2000 and had been serving the Institute since then. An accomplished surgeon, excellent teacher and scientist and above all a great human being, he was a prolific speaker, writer, a great philosopher and also a Vedanta scholar.
He had published over 100 landmark research papers in well-reputed international and national journals. He was internationally renowned for his pioneering research in the field of pituitary tumors. Dr Mukherjee’s untimely departure is an irreparable loss to the family members, patients, to the Institute and the country.