News, Events, & Seminars
Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo (RISE) 2013
Upcoming Seminars
- Harvard School of Public Health Surveillance Working Group Seminars
- Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology (CIMIT) Events
- Center of Expertide in Quality and Patient Safety
HSyE Webinar Schedule
| Date | Title |
| 11/07/2012 | Spreadsheet tools for detecting improvements and evaluating intervention cost effectiveness under the CMS incentive system |
| 02/13/2013 | Systems engineering tools for regional healthcare network design – Methods and examples |
| 04/2013 | A survey of innovation methods and innovation centers in healthcare |
| 06/2013 | Systems engineering disease screening methods – Mental health case studies |
| 08/2013 | Optimizing complex healthcare logistics processes – Three scheduling examples |
| 10/2013 | Engineering optimal appointment access – Simple feedback control case studies |
| 12/2013 | Preliminary experiences mapping healthcare quality improvement networks |
| 02/2014 | The use of six sigma’s design of experiments for improving healthcare processes |
| Pending | Literature review and round table on use of real time location systems in healthcare |
HSyE Distinguished Speaker & Research Colloquia Series
2012-2013 |
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| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 7/2013 | TBD | TBD |
| 5/2013 | TBD | TBD |
| 4/1/2013 | Jagpreet Chhatwal | TBD |
| 3/22/2013 | Talley Holman | TBD |
| 3/21/2013 | Onur Asan | TBD |
| 3/20/2013 | Alper Murat | TBD |
| 02/08/2013 | Dayna Martinez, PhD, HSyE Institute | Social Distancing and Non-Pharmaceutical Intervention Strategies for Mitigating Pandemic Influenza Outbreaks |
| 02/05/2013 | Susan S. Hawkins, Henry Ford Health System | Henry Ford Health System's Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Journey |
| 01/18/2013 | Dr. Eugene Kolker, Chief Data Officer at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Head of the Bioinformatics & High-throughput Analysis Laboratory at Seattle Children’s Research Institute | Predictive Analysis in Healthcare |
| 10/01/2012 | Ola G. Batarseh, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology | Model-Based System Engineering in Healthcare Systems |
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2011-2012 |
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| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 04/19/2012 | Dr. Gene Lindsey President and CEO, Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates | Moving a Physician-led Organization from Volume to Value |
| 02/07/2012 | Dr. Donald M. Berwick, Former Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Former CEO of Institute for Healthcare Improvement | The Affordable Care Act and the Future of American Health Care |
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2010-2011 |
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| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 06/17/2011 | Douglas M. King, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign | Efficient Contiguity and Hole Analysis in Political Districting |
| 06/03/2011 | Joseph Keebler, M.A., University of Central Florida | Applying Human Factors to Health Care Systems Engineering |
| 04/15/2011 | Elisa Long, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Operations Management | Allocating Resources for HIV Prevention and Treatment Scale Up |
| 04/08/2011 | Dr. Amar Gupta, University of Arizona | Healthcare: A Three-Pronged Approach in a Knowledge Society |
| 03/11/2011 | Michael Carter, Ph.D., Director of Centre for Research in Healthcare Engineering, University of Toronto | Quantitative Decision Support Models in Healthcare |
| 02/25/2011 | Sheldon H. Jacobson, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana | Life as an Academic: The Keys to Success and Pediatric Vaccine Procurement Policy: The Monopsonist's Problem |
| 02/15/2011 | Reza Yaesoubi, PhD, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center | Coordinating Contracts in a Preventive Health Care System |
| 01/14/2011 | Vinod Sahney, Ph.D., Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Harvard School of Public Health | U.S. Healthcare Industry: Role of Industrial Engineers |
| 12/10/2010 | Warren Sutton, Ph.D., CNA Resource Analysis Division | Using Operations Research in Navy Manpower and Personnel Decisions |
| 11/02/2010 | Dr. Greta Ljung, Principal Scientist, AIR Worldwide Corporation | Estimating Potential Losses from Natural Catastrophes |
| 10/22/2010 | Lawrence M. Seiford, Ph.D., University of Michigan | Benchmarking for Best Practice: Learning from Outliers with Data Envelopment Analysis |
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2009-2010 |
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| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 04/30/2010 | Dionne Aleman Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto |
Optimization methods for large‐scale radiotherapy problems |
| 04/27/2010 | Donald Lee Assistant Professor of Operations Management School of Management, Yale University |
Optimal capacity overbooking of dialysis chairs |
| 04/02/2010 | Jagpreet Chhatwal Health Economist, Merck Research Labs, North Wales, PA |
Optimizing biopsy decision making in breast cancer screening |
| 03/30/2010 | Kyungduck Cha School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Integer programming strategies for radiation therapy planning |
| 03/26/2010 | Ayten Turkcan Associate Research Scientist, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, Purdue University |
Clinical scheduling in primary care and oncology clinics |
| 11/13/2009 | Hari Balasubramanian Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA |
How should we design primary care physician panels? |
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2008-2009 |
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| 03/19/2009 | Deborah Nightingale Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics and Engineering Systems, Director, Lean Advancement Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Lean enterprise transformation: Insights from MIT's lean advancement initiative |
| 11/13/2008 | Cerry Klein National Science Foundation |
Research priorities at the National Science Foundation |
| 10/16/2008 | Jérémie Gallien MIT Sloan School of Management |
Implementing supply routing optimization in a make-to-order manufacturing network |
| 10/03/2008 | Richard Wysk Penn State University |
Bacterial implants: Changing the landscape of postsurgical infections |
| 10/02/2008 | Ben R. Kneppers Sustainability Practitioner |
Achieving sustainability: An engineer approach to strategic sustainable development |
| 09/18/2008 | Sharon Johnson Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
Implementing hands-on simulations to explore lean and supply chain principles in different academic settings |
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2007-2008 |
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| 04/17/2008 | Murray Cote Division of Health Policy & Research, Health Sciences Center, University of Colorado, Denver |
A mixed integer programming model to locate traumatic brain injury treatment units in the Department of Veterans Affairs |
| 04/10/2008 | Soundar Kumara Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University |
Self managing systems |
| 04/11/2008 | Ali Riza Kaylan Department of Industrial Engineering, Bogazici University |
Modeling and analysis of excellence journey: Assessment of national quality movement in Turkey |
| 03/28/2008 | Brian Denton Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University |
Stochastic optimization models for surgery delivery systems |
| 03/27/2008 | John Brownstein Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Informatics Group |
Surveillance without borders: New directions in the informatics of real-time global infectious disease monitoring |
| 03/12/2008 | Martin Kulldorff Harvard Medical School, Ambulatory Care and Prevention |
Sequential analyses for drug and vaccine safety surveillance |
| 02/26/2008 | Richard Larson Mitsui Professor, Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Operations research at the intersection of math, management, and social sciences |
| 11/28/2007 | Rosalind Picard Affective Computing Research Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Emotional intelligence technologies |
| 11/14/2007 | Robert J. Graves Krehbiel Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College |
Control of complex integrated automated systems – Emerging technologies and industrial case experiences |
| 11/06/2007 | Dario Salvucci Department of Computer Science, Drexel University |
An integrated theory of concurrent multitasking |
| 10/03/2007 | Tucker Marion School of Technological Entrepreneurship, Northeastern University |
New product development practices in early-stage firms: A pilot study |
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2006-2007 |
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| 12/2006 | David Cowan Health Systems Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Industrial engineering in health systems |
| 11/17/2006 | Sebastian Fixson Operations Management Group, MIT Sloan School of Management |
Determinants of problem-solving performance: Rework in product development |
| 10/27/2006 | Joe Zhu Department of Management, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) – What DEA can do |
| 10/20/2006 | Abhi Deshmukh Program Director, Manufacturing Enterprise Systems, National Science Foundation |
Engineering large scale sensor networks |
| 09/29/2006 | Ana Muriel Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
The impact of consumer returns on supply chain coordination |
| 01/27/2006 | James Benneyan Northeastern University |
Healthcare quality and reliability models |
