IOE 513 - Seminar in Health Care Operations Research

This course provides an overview of the role of operations research in healthcare. It surveys and evaluates research done in this field and addresses some of the key technical issues encountered when developing healthcare operations research models. Insights will be shared about carrying out collaborative research with healthcare professionals.

Taught IOE 513:  Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, and Winter 2017

Next Time Offered: Winter 2019

Taught IOE 316:  Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Fall 2012, Winter 2013, Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Fall 2014, Winter 2015, Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Fall 2016, and Winter 2017

Next Time Offered: Fall 2017

IOE 440 - Operations Analysis and Management

Principles and models for analyzing, and managing manufacturing and service operations as well as supply chains.  Emphasis on inventory management and control, capacity management, queueing models of operational dynamics (including cycle time, work-in-process inventory, throughput, and variability), the math and physics of enterprises.

Taught IOE 440:  Fall 2013, Fall 2014, and Fall 2015

Ongoing:

Xiang Liu
Anticipated graduation: May 2018
"Applying Operations Research to Improve disease Screening and Monitoring: Optimizing Multiple Testing Modalities, Incorporating Patients’ Adherence, and Utilizing Patients’ Self-examination."
Chair
Awards: Honorable Mention, INFORMS Section on Public Program, Services and Needs Best Paper Competition, 2013

Gian-Gabriel Garcia
Anticipated graduation: May 2020
"Modeling the Role of Self-Reporting in Concussion Return-to-Play Decisions."
Advisor
Awards: 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; 2017 and 2016 Honorable Mention, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Ford Foundation Fellowship

Wesley Marrero-Colon
Anticipated graduation: May 2020
"Data Driven Decisions in Healthcare."
Advisor
Awards: 2015 Minority Issues Forum Student Poster Competition, Honorable Mention; 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; 2017 Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences Best Poster Award

Completed:

Greggory Schell
Graduated: May 2015
"Personalized Medicine in Optimal Chronic Disease Management"
Chair
Awards: 2012 Doing Good With Good OR First Prize

Elliot Lee
Graduated: May 2016
"Resource Allocation in Chronic Disease Screening"
Chair
Awards: 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; 2012 University of Michigan Bonder Scholar

Jonathan E. Helm – Industrial and Operations Engineering, Current position: Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

Brian Lernay – Industrial and Operations Engineering, Current student

Lauren Steimle – Industrial and Operations Engineering, Current student

Donald Richardson – Industrial and Operations Engineering, Current student

Christine Barnett – Industrial and Operations Engineering, May 2017

Chate Eamrungroj – Industrial and Operations Engineering, December 2016

Pooyan Kazemian – Industrial and Operations Engineering, May 2016

Xi Gu – Mechanical Engineering, December 2015

Jivan Deglise-Favre-Hawkinson – Industrial and Operations Engineering, August 2015

Amir Sadrpour – Industrial and Operations Engineering, December 2013

Chien-Chih You – Electrical Engineering, June 2012

Yedan Yin, 2010, " Understanding Emergency Department Crowding", Current status: Nexteer Automotive

Luying Wang, 2010, "Resource Allocation: The Trade-off Between Treatment and Prevention", Current status: Financial Business Analyst, PIMCO, Pursuing MBA at University of Chicago

Jingnan Wang, 2011,  "Application of TNT Algorithm to Guide Monitoring of Glaucoma Patients", Current status: Operations Research Analyst, Reddwerks Corporation

Ming Liu, 2012, "Modeling Screening of Hepatocellular Carcinoma through Markov Decision Models", Current status: PhD student, University of Maryland

Kaiyue Zheng, 2013, "Validation of Estimation Model of the Time and Value of Neoadjuvant Prostate-Specific Antigen Nadir", Current status: PhD student, Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Luke Bruski, 2015, "Understanding of Pediatric ICU Transfers", Current status: GE Healthcare in the Operations Management Leadership Program

Yongcai Xu, 2015, "Projection of Organ Donors", Current status: Ernst & Young Consultant

Xiang Li, 2015, "Strategic Workforce Planning"

September 2016– present
Tudor Borza, medical fellow
Ricardo Cummings, Eng Freshman
Jhawan Davis, IOE Sophomore
Rayka Devaprasad, Eng Freshman
Nathan Estes, IOE Senior
Sarah Finley, IOE Junior
Chun He, IOE Junior
Shivani Joshi, Eng Sophomore
Peter Kirk, Pre-med
Elizabeth Lobaza, IOE Junior
Jinyuan Wang, IOE Senior
Zhitong Xie, IOE Junior
Zhining Zhou, IOE Junior

September 2015 – August 2016

September 2014 – August 2015

September 2013 – August 2014

September 2012 – August 2013

September 2011 – August 2012

September 2010 – August 2011

Teaching Assistant - 2004-2008
Graduate level Decision Analysis
Graduate level Forecasting for Management
Graduate level Introduction to Logistics and Operations Management

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA (Gainesville, Florida)

Statistics Tutor - 2000 - 2001
Regression Analysis
Probability Theory
Nonparametric Statistical Methods
Design of Experiments