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{{short description|Indian-American statistician and singer}}
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| education =BS, MS, Statistics, [[Indian Statistical Institute]] <br> PhD, Statistics, 1994, [[University of Wisconsin]]
| thesis_title =Influence Diagnostics in Longitudinal Models
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| website = {{URL|mousumibanerjee.com}}
| workplaces = [[University of Michigan]] <br> [[Wayne State University]]
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'''Mousumi Banerjee''' is an [[Indian people|Indian]]-American statistician and singer. She is the Anant M. Kshirsagar Collegiate Research Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy (CHOP) at the [[University of Michigan]]. Banerjee is also the executive director of the nonprofit art foundation Tagore Beyond Boundaries.

==Early life and education==
Banerjee was born and raised in India to academic parents; her father was a professor of English literature and her mother taught Bengali language.<ref name = "Pi">{{cite web |title=A Life of Pi and Poetry |url=https://sph.umich.edu/stories/2018posts/mousumi-banerjee.html |website=sph.umich.edu |accessdate=November 11, 2020 |date=July 30, 2018}}</ref> Although she was never formally trained music and literature, she learned from her cousins and father how to write poetry and sing.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bhattacharya |first1=Sreemoyee |title=US based Bengali professor merges science and music |url=https://www.getbengal.com/details/us-based-bengali-professor-merges-science-and-music |website=getbengal.com |accessdate=November 13, 2020 |date=January 12, 2019}}</ref> She was convinced by her high school math teacher to study at the Indian Statistical Institute, where she was the only female in a class of 22.<ref name = "Pi"/> Following her [[Master's degree]], Banerjee moved to North American and enrolled at the [[University of Wisconsin]] for her PhD in statistics.<ref name = "umich bio">{{cite web |title=Mousumi Banerjee, Ph.D., M.S. |url=https://ihpi.umich.edu/our-experts/mousumib |website=hpi.umich.edu |accessdate=November 11, 2020}}</ref>

==Career==
Upon completing her PhD, Banerjee accepted a faculty position at [[Wayne State University]] where she worked on an [[National Institutes of Health]]-funded prostate cancer project.<ref name = "Pi"/> As an [[associate professor]] in the Center for Healthcare Effectiveness Research, Banerjee received the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation Excellence in Clinical Research Award for her project, titled "Recursive Partitioning for Prognostic Grouping of Patients with Clinically Localized Prostate Carcinoma."<ref>{{cite news |title=Awards |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63058549/mousumi-banerjee/ |accessdate=November 11, 2020 |publisher=[[Detroit Free Press]] |date=August 5, 2002 |location=Detroit, Michigan}}</ref> In order to work cohesively with doctors on her prostate cancer project, Banerjee began taking biology classes and shadowing colleagues in clinics to understand the science.<ref name = "Pi"/>

Banerjee eventually left Wayne State University to accept a faculty position at the [[University of Michigan]] where she continued to study cancer In 2007, she led a research project of over 630 women diagnosed with breast cancer which determined that black women were less likely to undergo cancer treatment than white women.<ref>{{cite news |title=Study: Black women get less cancer treatment |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63058571/mousumi-banerjee/ |accessdate=November 12, 2020 |publisher=The Californian |date=October 9, 2007|via=newspapers.com}}</ref> In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the [[American Statistical Association]] for her "outstanding and sustained research, collaboration and mentoring involving statistical methods, theory and design for clinical trials, and for service to the profession."<ref>{{cite web |title=American Statistical Association Names 48 Fellows for 2012 |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9494097.htm |website=prweb.com |accessdate=November 11, 2020 |date=May 10, 2012}}</ref> Banerjee was also named the director of UMich's Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, during which her project ''Tree-Based Model for Thyroid Cancer Prognostication'' received the 2015 Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Michigan McDevitt Excellence in Research Award in the area of health policy research.<ref>{{cite web |title=Banerjee receives McDevitt Excellence in Research Award |url=https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/banerjee-receives-mcdevitt-excellence-research-award |website=ihpi.umich.edu |accessdate=November 13, 2020 |date=June 24, 2015}}</ref>

While continuing to work at the University of Michigan, Banerjee also co-founded a nonprofit organization with Rajeeb Chakraborty called Tagore Beyond Boundaries. The aim of the nonprofit was to transcribe the songs of [[Rabindranath Tagore]] to share with the Western world.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Banerjee|first1=Mandira|title=BRINGING TAGORE TO THE WORLD |url=https://global.umich.edu/newsroom/bringing-tagore-to-the-world/ |website=global.umich.edu |accessdate=November 12, 2020 |date=2017}}</ref> She also released two CDs, Hriday Amar Prakash Holo and Nijer Rabindranath, and published one book on poetry.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Amreen |first1=N. Anita |title=Melody and rhyme |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/uncategorized/2015/12/11/melody-and-rhyme |accessdate=November 12, 2020 |publisher=[[Dhaka Tribune]] |date=December 11, 2015}}</ref> In 2018, Banerjee was appointed the Anant M. Kshirsagar Collegiate Professor for a five-year term in recognition of her "work on statistical methodology that have been applied to many important areas of health care and policy."<ref name = "Professorship">{{cite web |title=Mousumi Banerjee Recognized with Collegiate Research Professorship |url=https://sph.umich.edu/news/2018posts/banerjee-062018.html |website=sph.umich.edu |accessdate=November 11, 2020 |date=June 20, 2018}}</ref>

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