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Yale Selects Three Women for Endowed Professorships in Public Health and Medicine

Bhramar Mukherjee has been named the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Biostatistics in the Yale School of Public Health. She joined the Yale faculty this semester as the inaugural senior associate dean of public health data science and data equity, a professor of chronic disease epidemiology, and a fellow with the Benjamin Franklin College. She holds additional faculty appointments in the department of statistics and data science, the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and the Institute for the Foundations of Data Science.

Dr. Mukherjee received her bachelor’s degree in statistics from Presidency College in India and her master’s degree in applied statistics and data analysis from the Indian Statistical Institute. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in statistics from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Katerina Politi has been named the Joseph A. and Lucille K. Madri Professor of Pathology in the Yale School of Medicine. She has been a faculty member with Yale since 2010, teaching in the department of pathology and the department of medicine. In addition to teaching, she serves as co-lead of the Cancer Signaling Networks Research Program at Yale Cancer Center and director of the Center for Thoracic Cancers.

Dr. Politi holds a biological sciences degree from the University of Pavia in Italy and a Ph.D. in genetics and development from Columbia University.

Valerie Reinke has been named the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Genetics at the Yale School of Medicine. She has held several faculty positions over the course of her 24-year tenure with Yale. She currently serves as chair of the department of genetics and co-director of the training program in genetics. Previously, she served as co-director of the molecular cell biology, genetics, and development track in Yale’s biological and biomedical sciences graduate program.

Dr. Reinke earned her bachelor’s degree in genetics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the University of Texas Health Science Center.

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