Healthcare Operations and Systems Engineering
- Healthcare systems design and appointment scheduling
- “In Advance” Scheduling in coordinated surgical care; integrated outpatient care
- Hospital system-wide patient flow and operations eng. for elective admissions
- Online/self-serve Appointment Systems accounting for patient urgency
- Operating Room Scheduling & Planning
- Factors contributing to hospital readmissions; online learning for readmissions control
- Admissions Control, Flow Modeling, and Hospital Occupancy Control
- Emergency Department Redesign & Flow with additional triage information
- Integrating Clinical Research into Clinical Care operations appropriately
- Planning and Scheduling for Clinical Trials with emphasis on Clinical Research Units (performance sites)
- Ward/unit shift design plus assignment
Medical Decision Making and Predictive Analytics
- Developed the first contextual multi-armed bandit online learning method for joint personalized optimization of treatment/medication and the nested decision of the dosage for blood pressure control.
- Glaucoma: Disease modeling, forecasting, monitoring, and decision support for the control of risk factors
- Advanced Macular Degeneration
Long-term interest: Workforce agility – Strategies for cross-training workers
- Services delivery in an environment of flexible personnel and service level guarantees
Long-term interest: Resilient supply chains:
- Investment in dual sourcing and flexible secondary supplier as well as dynamic ordering policies in a multi-product environment with supplier disruptions.