12-13 September 2014

Chicago, IL

Center for Engineering and Health

Northwestern University

Program

Friday

Technical Sessions: (9:00-10:30am)

1. 1)Optimal Planning in Healthcare Under Uncertainty
   

2. Location: Gray Seminar Room
   

3. Chair: Burhaneddin Sandikci, University of Chicago
   

4. Timothy Chan and Auyon Siddiq
   

5. Robust facility location under demand location uncertainty with emergency response applications
   

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7. Yan Deng, Siqian Shen and Brian Denton
   

8. Chance-Constrained Surgery Planning Under Uncertain or Ambiguous Surgery Durations
   

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10. Jakob Kotas and Archis Ghate
    

11. Response-guided dosing
    

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13. Arkajyoti Roy and Omid Nohadani
    

14. On spatiotemporal data incorporation in IMRT planning
    

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2. 2)Applied Healthcare Management
   

3. Location: Baldwin Auditorium
   

4. Chair: Allen Holder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
   

5. Murray Côté, Dylan Dacy and Tiffany Radcliff
   

6. Implementing a Medical Screening and Referral Program for Rural Emergency Departments
   

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8. Christine Barnett, Scott Tomlins, Daniel Underwood, John Wei, Todd Morgan, Selin Merdan, James Montie and Brian Denton
   

9. Modeling the Public Health Impacts of Prostate Cancer Biomarkers in a Screening Setting
   

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11. Liam O'Neill, Nan Zhang, Gautam Das and Heng Huang
    

12. No Silver Bullet: Identifying Security Vulnerabilities Of Hospital Databases
    

Technical Sessions: (10:45-12:15pm)

3. 3)Patient Centered Medical Home
   

4. Location: Gray Seminar Room
   

5. Chair: Kai Yang, Wayne State University
   

6. Romesh Saigal
   

7. Real Options for managing scarce resource allocation in a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
   

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9. Hari Balasubramanian and Michael Rossi
   

10. Designing the patient centered medical home: possible methods and challenges
    

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12. Saeede Ajorlou, Issac Shams and Kai Yang
    

13. An Analytics Approach to Designing a Patient Centered Medical Home
    

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15. Zelda Zabinsky, Paul Fishman and Joseph Heim
    

16. Impact of Virtual Encounters on Overall Health Care Use in a Patient Centered Medical Home
    

4. 4)HIV Modeling
   

5. Location: Baldwin Auditorium
   

6. Chair: C. Hendricks Brown, Northwestern University
   

7. A. David Paltiel
   

8. HIV Policy Modeling: Linking Research to Decisions in Public Health & Medicine
   

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10. Round Table
    

11. Opportunities for using simulation modeling for decision making around local HIV policy.
    

12. Discussants:
    

13.     Benjamin Armbruster, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University
    

14.     Nanett Benbow, Deputy Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health
    

15.     Richard D’Aquilla, Infectious Diseases, Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center Northwestern University
    

16.     Chris Gordon, Branch Chief, Division of AIDS Research, National Institute of Mental Health
    

17.     Brian Mustanski, Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University
    

18.     Daniel Pohl, HIV/STD Prevention Department, Howard Brown Health Center 
    

19.     John Schneider, Departments of Medicine & Health Studies (Epidemiology), University of Chicago
    

20.     Uri Wilenski, Education & Social Policy; Electrical Eng. & Computer Science, Northwestern University
    

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Lunch (12:15-1:15pm)

1. Location: Ryan Family Atrium
   

Welcome Address (1:15-1:30pm)

1. Location: Hughes Auditorium
   

Plenary: (1:30-2:30pm)

1. Location: Hughes Auditorium
   

2. Sheldon H. Jacobson, PhD
   

3. Operations Research and Health Care                                                                        (CME)
   

4. Director, Sim. & Opt. Lab.
   

5. Department of Computer Science
   

6. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
   

Technical Sessions: (2:45-4:15pm)

5. 5)Innovative Mechanisms for Operating Room & Patient Readmission Management
   

6. Location: Gray Seminar Room
   

7. Chair: Vikram Tiwari, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
   

8. Vikram Tiwari and Warren Sandberg
   

9. Predicting Day-of-Surgery Case Volume
   

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11. Bassam Kadry
    

12. Leveraging Game Theory to Improve Scheduling Accuracy
    

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14. Carrie Queenan and Alan Snell
    

15. Patient, Heal Thyself! A Technology Enabled Intervention to Promote Patient Activation
    

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17. Panos Kougias, Vikram Tiwari and David Berger
    

18. Inception and Design of a Randomized Trial to Study the Impact of Case-Specific Operative Time Prediction on Operating Room Productivity
    

6. 6)Applied Healthcare Management
   

7. Location: Baldwin Auditorium
   

8. Chair: Nan Kong, Purdue University
   

9. Mariel Lavieri and Greggory Schell
   

10. Optimal Copayment Restructuring for a Heterogeneous Patient Population
    

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12. Jose Zayas-Castro and Andres Garcia
    

13. Interventions as an alternative to penalties in preventable readmissions
    

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15. Yan Li, Nan Kong and Qipeng Zheng
    

16. Optimal Physician Traveling Assignment for Improving Care Access in An Outpatient Care Network
    

7. 7)Data-Driven Decision Making                                                                                        (CME)
   

8. Location: Hughes Auditorium
   

9. Chair: Karen Smilowitz, Northwestern University
   

10. Jon Stauffer, Jonathan Helm, Adel Alaeddini, Kurt Bretthauer and Ted Skolarus
    

11. Reducing Hospital Readmissions by Integrating Empirical Prediction with Resource Optimization
    

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13. Irina Dolinskaya
    

14. Incorporating new data streams in humanitarian logistics
    

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16. Karen Smilowitz, George Chiampas, Sanjay Mehrotra, Jennifer Chan, Mike Nishi and Mehmet Basdere
    

17. Expanding Medical Preparedness for Mass Gathering Events Through Data Analytics
    

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19. Brittany Bogle and Sanjay Mehrotra
    

20. Issues with merging longitudinally collected cohort data from multiple studies
    

Plenary: (4:30-5:30pm)

1. Location: Hughes Auditorium
   

2. Eva Lee, PhD
   

3. Optimizing and Transforming the Healthcare System                                                   (CME)
   

4. Director, Center for Operations Research in Medicine & HealthCare
   

5. Co-Director, NSF I/UCRC Center for Health Organization Transformation
   

6. Industrial and Systems Engineering
   

7. Georgia Institute of Technology
   

Poster Session, Reception: (5:45-7:00pm)

1. Location: Ryan Family Atrium
   

Saturday

Brunch (8:00-8:30am)

Technical Sessions: (8:30-10:00am)

8. 8)Chronic Disease Management
   

9. Location: Gray Seminar Room
   

10. Chair: Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology
    

11. Shan Liu, Daena Watcha, Mark Holodiny and Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert
    

12. Cost-effectiveness of hepatitis C treatment delivery in U.S. incarcerated populations
    

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14. Murat Kurt, Niraj Kumar Pandey and Mark Karwan
    

15. Estimating Lipid Management Guidelines' Risk Value Of A Life Year On Treatment
    

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17. Mahboubeh Madadi, Shengfan Zhang and Louise Henderson
    

18. Evaluation of Breast Cancer Mammography Screening Policies Considering Adherence Behavior
    

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20. Mehmet Ayvaci, Mehmet Ahsen, Srinivasan Raghunathan and Zahra Gharibi
    

21. The Impact of Risk Profiling on Mammography Interpretation: Bias in Biopsy Decisions
    

9. 9)Patient Flow in Emergency and Inpatient Care Settings
   

10. Location: Hughes Auditorium
    

11. Chair: Hari Balasubramanian, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    

12. Carri Chan and Kuang Xu
    

13. Using Future Information to Reduce Waiting Times in the Emergency Department
    

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15. Pengyi Shi and Jim Dai
    

16. Overflow Policies for Emergency Department Patients Awaiting Inpatient Beds
    

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18. Nicholas Ballester, Pratik Parikh and Nan Kong
    

19. Inpatient Discharge Planning at Hospitals
    

10. 10) Patient Scheduling and Healthcare Operations
    

11. Location: Searle Seminar Room
    

12. Chair: Mark Van Oyen, University of Michigan
    

13. Jivan Deglise-Hawkinson, Jonathan Helm, Todd Huschka, David Kaufman and Mark Van Oyen
    

14. Optimizing Timely Access to an Integrated Outpatient Care Network with Throughput and Utilization Metrics
    

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16. Jonathan Helm, Michael Hu, Kedi Wu, Xiang Liu, Mariel Lavieri and Ted Skolarus
    

17. Missed Opportunities in Preventing Hospital Readmissions: Redesigning Post-discharge Checkup Policies
    

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19. Bjorn Berg and Brian Denton
    

20. Fast Approximations for Online Scheduling of Outpatient Procedure Centers
    

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22. Ester Wang, Kumar Muthuraman and Doug Morrice
    

23. Appointment Scheduling for Multi-service Networks
    

Plenary: (10:15-11:15am)

1. Location: Hughes Auditorium
   

2. Victoria Jordan, PhD, MBA, MS
   

3. Systems Engineering in the University of Texas Health System                                   (CME)
   

4. A Multi-Disciplinary, Integrated Model for Improvement
   

5. Executive Director, Strategic Management & Systems Engineering
   

6. Office of Performance Improvement    
   

7. University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
   

Panel Discussion: (11:30-12:30pm)

1. Location: Hughes Auditorium
   

2. Potential Value of Integrated Medical Database
   

3. Chair: Satyender Goel, Northwestern University
   

4. Panelists:
   

5.     Jay Bhatt, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Chicago Department of Public Health
   

6.     Abel Kho, Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, Northwestern University;
   

7.                       Co-Executive Director: Chicago Health IT Regional Extension Center
   

8.                       Informatics Lead and Co-PI: Chicago Area Patient Centered Outcomes Research Network
   

9.     Ron Price, Assoc. Vice President, Informatics and Systems Development at Loyola University Chicago
   

Lunch (12:30-1:30pm)

1. Location: Ryan Family Atrium
   

Plenary: (1:30-2:30pm)

1. Location: Hughes Auditorium
   

2. Heather Woodward-Hagg, PhD
   

3. Health Systems Engineering: Lessons from Integration of Systems                             (CME)
   

4. Engineering within the Veterans Health Administration
   

5. Director, National Veterans Engineering Resource Center
   

6. Director, VA Center for Applied Systems Engineering
   

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Technical Sessions: (2:45-4:15pm)

11. 11) Operations Research Applications in Scheduling, Learning, Diagnosis, & Managing
    

12. Location: Gray Seminar Room
    

13. Chair: Diwakar Gupta, University of Minnesota
    

14. Van-Ahn Truong
    

15. Optimal Advance Scheduling
    

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17. Diana Negoescu, Kostas Bimpikis, Dan Iancu and Margaret Brandeau
    

18. Dynamic Learning of Patient Response Types: An Application to Treating Chronic Diseases
    

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20. Sarang Deo, Jérémie Gallien and Jonas Oddur Jonasson
    

21. Improving HIV early infant diagnosis supply chains in sub-Saharan Africa
    

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23. Wenqi Hu, Carri Chan and Jose Zubizarreta
    

24. Using Matching to Examine Early Warning Systems for ICU Admissions
    

12. 12) Patient Centered Modeling                                                                                          (CME)
    

13. Location: Searle Seminar Room
    

14. Chair: Amarnath Banerjee, Texas A&M University
    

15. Muge Capan, Julie Ivy and Jeanne Huddleston
    

16. Patient-Centered Response to Acute Physiological Deterioration
    

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18. Maria Mayorga
    

19. Modeling individual heterogeneity in screening choices for colorectal cancer – model design impacts outcomes
    

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21. Amarnath Banerjee and Yu Fu
    

22. Modeling the financial effects of using a Health Information Exchange
    

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24. Yan Li, Nan Kong and Mark Lawley
    

25. Capacity Planning for Long-Term Care Networks
    

Plenary: (4:30-5:30pm)

1. Location: Hughes Auditorium
   

2. Michael N. Katehakis, PhD
   

3. Multi-Armed Bandits in Healthcare:                                                                              (CME)
   

4. Adaptive designs, matching,  and admission control 
   

5. Management Science and Information Systems Department
   

6. Rutgers University