Motomi Mori

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Motomi Mori
Born
Hakodate, Japan
NationalityJapanese
OccupationStatistician

Motomi (Tomi) Mori is a Japanese biostatistician. Formerly the Walter & Clora Brownfield Professor of Cancer Biostatistics at the Knight Cancer Institute of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), [1] she was named endowed professor and chair of biostatistics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2020. [2] She is the chair of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for 2021. [3]

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Early life

Mori was born in Hakodate, Japan, and lived in Japan through high school. [4]

Education

She graduated from the University of Montana in 1982, with a major in psychology and a minor in mathematics. An undergraduate mentor, James Walsh, who worked in psychometrics encouraged her to pursue statistics instead because of its greater flexibility. She earned a master's degree in statistics from the University of Iowa in 1985, and completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics at Iowa in 1989. [5] [4] Her dissertation, in mathematical statistics and jointly supervised by George G. Woodworth and Robert F. Woolson, was Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Data is the Presence of Informative Right Censoring. [6] Her research during this time also included more applied work on hospital-acquired infections.

After completing her doctorate, she worked at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington. In 1991 she moved to the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, where she worked with the National Marrow Donor Program on statistical issues related to matching bone marrow donors to patients from minority groups. She joined OHSU in 1999, where she studies biomarkers, personalized medicine, and targeted therapy for cancer. [1] At OHSU, she directed the Division of Biostatistics from 2004 to 2014; she also earned an MBA there in 2016. [5]

In 2010, she became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [7]

Recognition

In 2020, she got the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development of the IBS [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dr. Motomi Mori, American Statistical Association, Section of Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences, retrieved 2017-11-21
  2. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital names Motomi Mori chair of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, January 23, 2020
  3. Governing Council, Caucus for Women in Statistics, 29 March 2016, retrieved 2021-01-21
  4. 1 2 "Interview with Tomi Mori", Biostatisticians' experience in oncology clinical trials, CRAB: Cancer Research and Biostatistics, retrieved 2017-11-21
  5. 1 2 Mori, Motomi – MS, PhD, MBA, Oregon Health & Science University, retrieved 2017-11-21
  6. Motomi Mori at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-21
  8. "Our History - International Biometric Society". www.biometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-09-10.