INFORMS Open Forum

As the Health Applications Society, we are pleased to share with you two exciting initiatives with Naval Research Logistics (NRL).

(1) NRL is partnering with the Health Applications Society to create a new healthcare department at NRL, and we are seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the founding Department Editor (DE) for this new department.

The DE will provide leadership and vision for the new department, and is expected to actively encourage high-quality submissions to the department, and efficiently process them. The DE will serve for a term of three years, with an anticipated start date of May 2019. All nominees need to be HAS members at the time they are being considered (unless there is clear evidence of involvement in past HAS activities, or a high degree of synergy with the HAS); and the DE is expected to maintain their HAS membership during their term.

NRL is dedicated to publishing high-quality papers in operations research/management and general quantitative modeling. Founded in 1954, NRL has a distinguished history of publication of both seminal methodological contributions and innovative applications, see a list of NRL papers by Winners of Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences at:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pagejournal/15206750/page/....

Please send nominations to DE.nomination.2019@gmail.com

by April 10, 2019. If you have any questions on this position, please contact Ming Hu (NRL Editor-in-Chief, Ming.Hu@rotman.utoronto.ca) or Ebru Bish (HAS President, ebru@vt.edu).

(2) NRL is currently soliciting papers for a special issue on health care operations (please see the attachment). The objective of this special issues is to archive an eclectic collection of high quality and state- of-the-art research related to health care operations management. Papers focusing on all health care OM topics ranging from care-process optimization to care coordination to strategic decisions at system, state, national and global levels are welcome. The following topics are of particular interest:

1.    Provider payment innovations
2.    Health care supply chains
3.    Integration of data into care processes
4.    Point of care and mobile technologies

The special issue is edited by Diwakar Gupta, University of Texas, with a team of associate editors including Susan Feng Lu, Purdue; Soroush Saghafian, Harvard; Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins; Ebru Bish, Virginia Tech; Sanjay Mehrotra, Northwestern; Nan Liu, Boston College; and Carri Chan, Columbia.
The submission deadline is April 30, 2019. Please consider submitting your papers to the special issue of NRL. 

Thank you,

NRL Editor-in-Chief, Ming Hu

NRL Editor of the Special Issue on Healthcare Operations, Diwakar Gupta

HAS Board: Ebru Bish (President), Jacqueline Griffin (Secretary), Mariel Lavieri (Treasurer), Lisa Maillart (Past President), Mark Van Oyen (Vice President), Hui Zhao (Communications and Outreach Coordinator)

HAS Strategic Initiatives with Academic Journals Committee: Tinglong Dai (Chair), Oguzhan Alagoz, Nicos Savva, Sze-Chuan Suen

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Ebru Bish
Associate Professor
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg VA
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