Mr. Satyam Mukherjee | Infection Prevention | Best Scholar Award

Tata Medical Center | India

Mr. Satyam Mukherjee is an accomplished Infection Control Scientific Officer at Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, specializing in infection prevention, antimicrobial resistance, and hospital hygiene management. He holds an M.Sc. in Medical Biotechnology from the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and a Diploma in Infection Prevention & Control from the University of Hyderabad, along with certification as a Certified Infection Control Professional (CICP) by CAHO. With over seven years of experience, he has contributed to national and international research projects supported by CDC, ICMR, and AIIMS, and has co-authored publications in reputed journals such as The Lancet Global Health, The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, and Infection Prevention in Practice. His expertise spans healthcare-associated infection surveillance (BSI, UTI, VAP, SSI), environmental microbiology, and sterility assurance. A global member of St. Jude Global Infectious Diseases Network, IPAC Canada, and IFCAI, he is deeply committed to advancing infection control and patient safety worldwide.

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Featured Publications

• Parveen, R., Thakur, A. K., Srivastav, S., Puraswani, M., Srivastava, A. K., Chakrabarti, A., Rodrigues, C., Ray, P., Biswal, M., Taneja, N., et al. (2025). Profile of central line-associated bloodstream infections in adult, paediatric, and neonatal intensive care units of hospitals participating in a health-care-associated infection surveillance network in India: A 7-year multicentric study. The Lancet Global Health.

• Mathur, P., Srivastav, S., Thakur, A. K., Parveen, R., Puraswani, M., Srivastava, A. K., Chakrabarti, A., Rodrigues, C., Balaji, V., Ray, P., et al. (2024). Candidaemia and central line-associated candidaemia in a network of Indian ICUs: Impact of COVID-19 pandemic. Mycoses.

• Mathur, P., Ningombam, A., Soni, K. D., Aggrawal, R., Singh, K. V., Samanta, P., Gupta, S., Srivastava, S., Behera, B., Tripathy, S., et al. (2024). Surveillance of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a network of Indian hospitals using modified definitions: A pilot study. The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia.

• Mukherjee, S., Bhattacharya, S., Goel, G., Sarkar Dey, M., & Bhattacharyya, A. (2023). High proportion of mucosal barrier injury–laboratory confirmed bloodstream infection among paediatric oncology patients in a cancer centre in eastern India. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

• Mukherjee, S., Sarkar De, M., Goel, G., Bhattacharyya, A., Mallick, I., Dabkara, D., Bhaumik, J., Roy, M. K., Majumdar, P. B., & Chatterji, S. (2023). Multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) bacteraemia rates among cancer patients in an oncology hospital in eastern India: An 11-year retrospective observational study. Infection Prevention in Practice, 5(3), 100275.