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Program for 8th Annual Koc University Healthcare Operations Workshop June 28th, 2019

  • 1.  Program for 8th Annual Koc University Healthcare Operations Workshop June 28th, 2019

    Posted 05-15-2019 08:11
    8th Annual Koc University Healthcare Operations Workshop
    June 28th, 2019

    We would like to announce the 8th Annual Koc University Healthcare Operations Workshop, which will be held on June 28th, 2019 Friday, at Koc University Campus, Istanbul, Turkey. The aim of this inter-disciplinary healthcare workshop is to bring together researchers from operations research, management and medicine fields, providing an overview of different research problems of interest, and illustrating the use of different methodologies. 

    We are excited to bring together a program with outstanding speakers:

    • Dan Adelman, University of Chicago, "An Efficient Frontier Approach to Scoring and Ranking Hospital Performance"
    • Zeynep Akşin, Koç University, "Learning from Many: Partner Diversity and Team Familiarity in Fluid Teams" 
    • Mazhar Arıkan, University of Kansas, "The Operational Effectiveness of a Full Capacity Protocol to Ease the Crowding at an Emergency Department"
    • Songül Çınaroğlu, Hacettepe University, "The impact of oversampling with "ubSMOTE" on the performance of machine learning classifiers in prediction of catastrophic health expenditures"
    • Mohammad Dehghani, Northeastern University, "A Multi-objective Outpatient Appointment Scheduling: A Data-Table Input Simulation-Optimization Approach"
    • Pınar Dursun, Boğaziçi University, "Optimum Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Planning"
    • Daniel Gartner, Cardiff University, "Hybrid Algorithms for Order Set Optimization"
    • Andrea Matta, Politecnico di Milano, "Home Care Vehicle Routing Problem: The Case of Preferences and Chargeable Overtime"

    Further information will be available at the workshop website: http://healthcare.ku.edu.tr.

    There will be no registration fee for the workshop. However due to limited space at the facility there will be some limitations on the attendance. Please send an e-mail before June 18, if you would like to attend.   In addition, limited number of rooms are reserved at the university dorms and guest housing for accommodation. If you would like to reserve a room, please send us an email until May 30th.

    We hope to see you at the workshop!

    Lerzan Örmeci (lormeci@ku.edu.tr) and  Evrim Didem Güneş (egunes@ku.edu.tr)

     

     



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    Lerzan Ormeci
    Koc University
    Istanbul
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