A mid-career interventional cardiologist and researcher at Cabrini and Alfred Health. She trained at Alfred and completed her PhD at the Baker Institute (Monash) receiving NHMRC postgraduate medical research scholarship. She received Medtronic scholarship for fellowship in Interventional Cardiology (UK). First woman of colour to qualify as and one of only 17 female interventional cardiologists in ANZ. She is the first female Australian cardiologist to be awarded the prestigious SCAl-USA Fellowship for interventional cardiology excellence. A member of Gender Equity in Medicine Committee of the RACP and Co Chair Equity, Diversity and Culture Committee CSANZ she is winner of 2023 Women as One (USA) annual international escalator awards as a mentor for the global mentorship program. Dr Swati Mukherjee is the founder director of Victorian Heart and Lung Clinic which continues to provide outreach comprehensive cardiac services in several sites in Gippsland for more than 10 years now.