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Sunil Mungee is the President and Chief Executive Officer at the Pemiscot Memorial Health Systems located in Hayti, Missouri. Based in Rural America, Pemiscot Memorial Health Systems serves a low-income, rural population.

Sunil Mungee brought with him decades of experience in senior leadership with an extensive background in hospital management and operations, physician relations and recruitment, new business development and physician practice acquisitions.

Mungee had within the first few months interacted with not only all the staff, but also representatives of all the local stake holders, asking them what he could do for them. His move was to start convincing health care industries to locate to Hayti and nearby areas, the underlying principle, in his own words, being that “If I bring industry to the Hayti area, suddenly the environment will improve. Housing, food, industry, health - it’s all connected. You have to bring employment to the community. People are looking for a job and there are no jobs”.

The respect for PIOs and India which Mungee generated in the rural communities associated with Pemiscot Memorial Health Systems, was only a re-affirmation of his style of working. At his previous place of work, Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau, he developed a cost effective, narrow network health plan for local employers. This plan resulted in 78 groups with 36,000 covered individuals, saving employers millions of dollars and providing quality healthcare to employees, with a large number of service lines, for the covered individuals, at a reduced (20%) cost from earlier times. He achieved this by expansion of service lines, physician recruitment, working with diverse medical practitioners, and introducing the narrow network health plan.

Hailing from a family of physicians in India, it was always expected that Shri Mungee would become a physician, but when at age 4 he displayed talent in music, his family recognized his gift and worked towards cultivating this talent.

At the age of 15, Mungee was chosen by a leading Maestro in India, Padmashri Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki, to study under him, gaining special permission from the Indian government to stay with the Maestro and do private schooling in pursuit of his music career. In this ancient form of teaching, Mungee learned and lived a strict, rigorous discipline for nearly 10 years: each day, he woke up at 3:30 AM to practice music, with a break from 7:00 to 8:00 AM. From 8:30 to 11:30, he would practice more, with lunch and studying his other school subjects from 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM. At that time, he would practice music again until 6:30 PM, with more school studies until 9 PM. All together, he regularly practiced music for 10 to 12 hours per day. He did not celebrate birthdays, weekends or holidays, and for the first three years, he was not allowed to see his family. His focus was music, and he loved that.

Even when his teacher was not present because his teacher himself was a professional traveling musician, Mungee would practice independently by following his maestro's instructions. Gradually, he began performing small concerts for club and family events. As the concerts began getting bigger, Mungee started performing in countries surrounding India, now singing his own composed music.

Soon he made his way to the United States of America, where he, from thousands of applicants, received U.S. citizenship under the World Music category. Today, he has traveled to each continent -- sans Antarctica -- playing at more than 3500 concerts, across the globe, in nearly every country.

He has also shared the stage with maestros like Ustad Bismillah Khan Sahib, Pandit Jasraj, Sonal Mansingh, Ustad Ghualm Ali, Anup Jalota, and Anuradha Paudwal.

Mungee currently conducts various seminars, music workshops, and regularly teaches worldwide through online sessions, where he teaches traditional and basic Indian classical music, besides performing regularly.

In terms of training seminars, Sunil Mungee only looks for Passion, Interest, Desire, Dedication in his prospective students. Whether they can or cannot pay him is of no consequence. In fact, realising that all who want to study music may not be able to do so due to financial constraints, Mungee apart from taking on paying students, he also gives free coaching in music to deserving children from economically disadvantaged sections of society, especially those who are passionate about music. On their part, his students who do not pay fees, are hugely appreciative of his assistance in realising their dreams and ambitions, and motivated by the opportunity to indulge in their passion for music, are eager to work hard, perform well and spread the name of their Guru.

With his propagation of Indian Classical music, Mungee has contributed to the spread of Indian culture and values throughout the world. He has received the prestigious Sur Mani "Jewel of India" Award, which is awarded to young upcoming artists by one of the most well-reputed music organizations in Mumbai, Sur Singar Parishad.

Monday through Friday, Sunil Mungee is a healthcare professional, and Friday evening through Sunday, he focuses on music. He credits the rigorous regime of his early training with allowing him to be able to work at Southeast Health Monday through Friday, catch a flight to Europe Friday evening, perform on Saturday and fly back to Southeast Missouri on Sunday.

Mungee says there is a component that allows music and health care to fit together: healing. He says “Music soothes. It heals because everybody has an anxiety, everybody has some physical challenges; some have mental challenges. Everybody goes through that. That's where I feel as an artist, as a performer, as a musician, that God has given me that power to heal people through my tones. That I can also heal through my professional side, is a very big blessing for me."