Dr. Debnath Chatterjee is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado and the program director for the pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at the University of Colorado. He is currently an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. After completing medical school in Pondicherry, India, he moved to the United States to pursue his anesthesiology residency training in Syracuse, NY, followed by a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Chatterjee is an education editor for the journal Pediatric Anesthesia. As one of the pediatric anesthesia section editors of Open Anesthesia, he regularly records video podcasts on core pediatric anesthesia topics. He is one of the founding editors of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) question of the week project and SPA One-Pagers.
Dr. Chatterjee’s areas of clinical interest include anesthesia for fetal interventions and adolescent bariatric surgery. Dr. Chatterjee is the Chair-Elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and represents them at the National Button Battery Task Force.