Dr. Samprit Banerjee is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of Biostatistics at Weill Medical College, Cornell University since January 2020. In May 2023, he also became an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Psychiatry at the same institution.
📝 Articles in Preparation
Dr. Banerjee is preparing several significant research articles, including one on predicting adherence to psychotherapy homework using mHealth data. Another focuses on a functional data analysis framework for analyzing mobile health data, while a third article explores clustering functional data with applications to mHealth data.
🩺 Extramural Professional Activities
Dr. Banerjee has contributed to multiple FDA advisory panels, including the Neurological Devices Panel in 2023 and the Patient Engagement Advisory Committee in 2021. He is also a standing member of the Effectiveness of Mental Health Interventions (EMHI) Study Section of NIMH from 2022-2025 and has been involved in scientific review groups for NIMH.
👨🏫 Past Positions Held
Dr. Banerjee served as the Founding Director of the PhD Program in Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell from 2020-2024. Additionally, he was the Founding Director of the MS Program in Biostatistics & Data Science from 2016 to 2020.
🎓 Educational Background
Dr. Banerjee holds a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (2008), following his M.Stat and B.Stat degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, India.
🧑🏫 Teaching & Mentorship
Dr. Banerjee is actively involved in teaching, including directing courses like Big Data in Medicine for the MS program in Biostatistics. He mentors post-doctoral associates and junior researchers, including Younghoon Kim, PhD, and Soohyun Kim, PhD, in areas of mHealth data modeling and deep learning in psychiatry.
📑 Administrative Activities On Data Cleaning
Dr. Banerjee contributes to Weill Cornell Medical College’s PhD Director’s Committee and co-chairs the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion sub-committee of the General Faculty Council.
🛡️ Special Government Employment
Since 2014, Dr. Banerjee has served as a Special Government Employee at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).
📊 Professional Affiliations
Dr. Banerjee is an elected Council of Sections Representative for the Mental Health Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
Notable Publications
Examining Healthy Lifestyles as a Mediator of the Association Between Socially Determined Vulnerabilities and Incident Heart Failure
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- Authors: Nickpreet Singh, Chanel Jonas, Laura C. Pinheiro, Jennifer D. Lau, Jinhong Cui, Leann Long, Samprit Banerjee, Raegan W. Durant, Madeline R. Sterling, James M. Shikany et al.
- Journal: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
- Year: 2025
Effects of Geography on Risk for Future Suicidal Ideation and Attempts Among Children and Youth
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- Authors: Wenna Xi, Samprit Banerjee, Bonnie T. Zima, George S. Alexopoulos, Mark Olfson, Yunyu Xiao, Jyotishman Pathak
- Journal: JAACAP Open
- Year: 2023
Relation of a Simple Cardiac Co-Morbidity Count and Cardiovascular Readmission After a Heart Failure Hospitalization
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- Authors: Aayush Visaria, Lauren Balkan, Laura C. Pinheiro, Joanna Bryan, Samprit Banerjee, Madeline R. Sterling, Udhay Krishnan, Evelyn M. Horn, Monika M. Safford, Parag Goyal
- Journal: The American Journal of Cardiology
- Year: 2020
Examining Timeliness of Total Knee Replacement Among Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis in the U.S.
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- Authors: H.M.K. Ghomrawi, A.I. Mushlin, R. Kang, S. Banerjee, J.A. Singh, L. Sharma, C. Flink, M. Nevitt, T. Neogi, D.L. Riddle
- Journal: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Year: 2020
Race and prostate imaging: implications for targeted biopsy and image-based prostate cancer interventions
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- Authors: Michael D Gross, Bashir Al Hussein Al Awamlh, Jonathan E Shoag, Elizabeth Mauer, Samprit Banerjee, Daniel J Margolis, Juan M Mosquera, Ann S Hamilton, Maria J Schumura, Jim C Hu
- Journal: BMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies
- Year: 2019
Long-term active surveillance of implantable medical devices: an analysis of factors determining whether current registries are adequate to expose safety and efficacy problems
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- Authors: Samprit Banerjee, Bruce Campbell, Josh Rising, Allan Coukell, Art Sedrakyan
- Journal: BMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies
- Year: 2019