HAS Online Seminar - Health Applications Society

Health Applications Society Online Seminar Series

Welcome to the HAS Online Seminar Series! This seminar series welcomes a broad range of healthcare modeling research topics such as healthcare operations, medical decision making, health policy, and health analytics.

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When: 4th Friday of each month
Where: Zoom Webinar

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Speaker: Timothy Chan is the Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, Strategic Initiatives and a Professor in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. His primary research interests are in operations research, optimization, and applied machine learning, with applications in healthcare, medicine, sustainability, and sports. He currently holds editorial roles in several academic journals, including Operations Research, Management Science, M&SOM and Service Science. He has served in a variety of leadership and service roles at INFORMS and CORS, including as President of the INFORMS Health Application Society

Seminar Title: Optimizing the Deployment of Defibrillators
Date and Time: Friday April 25th, at 12:00-1:00 PM EST

Abstract: This talk discusses several projects on optimizing the deployment of defibrillators for cardiac arrest, including placement of static defibrillators and drone delivery. Practical impact will be presented along with a discussion of how these projects have opened new doors to other research topics.

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Seminar List

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Recording
May 30, 2025	Dr. Nikos Trichakis	MIT	Title coming soon	Recording coming soon
April 25, 2025	Dr. Timothy C. Y. Chan	University of Toronto	Optimizing the Deployment of Defibrillators	Recording coming soon
February 28, 2025	Dr. Turgay Ayer	Georgia Tech	Perspectives on Practice-focused Healthcare Operations Research	View Recording
June 28, 2024	Dr. Ozlem Ergun	Northeastern University	Examining Resiliency in Pharmaceutical Drug Supply Chains Incorporating Stakeholder Behaviors	View Recording
May 26, 2023	Dr. Maria Mayorga	Georgia Tech	An End-to-end Approach to Improving Population Health Outcomes in Diabetic Retinopathy Through Personalized Screening Strategies	View Recording
March 24, 2023	Dr. Pinar Keskinocak	Georgia Tech	Infectious Disease Modeling Evaluating Interventions and Resource Allocation	View Recording
February 24, 2023	Dr. Jagpreet Chhatwal	Harvard Medical School	From Modeling to Health Policy: Increasing the Impact of OR/MS Work	View Recording
January 27, 2023	Dr. Hrayer Aprahamian	Texas A&M University	An Optimization Framework for Customized Targeted Mass Screening of Non-uniform Populations under the Availability of Multiple Schemes and Tests	View Recording
September 23, 2022	Dr. Stefan Scholtes	University of Cambridge	Some Thoughts on Causal Inference with Observational Data	View Recording
August 25, 2022	Dr. Rafael Araos	Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile	Leveraging Population-Based Cohorts for Pandemic Response	Recording coming soon
July 22, 2022	Dr. Carri Chan	Columbia Business School	Interpretable Machine Learning for Resource Allocation with Application to Ventilator Triage	View Recording
June 24, 2022	Dr. Vishal Gupta	USC Marshall School of Business	Project Eva: Designing and Deploying the Greek COVID-19 Testing System	View Recording
May 27, 2022	Dr. Oguzhan Alagoz	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Stochastic Modeling to Personalize Cancer Screening	View Recording
April 22, 2022	Dr. Andrew Li	Carnegie Mellon University	Optimization in the Race to a Liquid Biopsy	View Recording
March 25, 2022	Dr. Dávid Papp	North Carolina State University	Optimization in radiotherapy: Quantifying the potential benefit of non-standard treatments	View Recording
February 25, 2022	Dr. Ebru Bish	The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Business	Public Health Screening: Challenges and Opportunities for Operations Researchers	View Recording
January 28, 2022	Dr. John R. Birge	The University of Chicago Booth School of Business	Reflections on OR and Controlling a Pandemic	View Recording
September 24, 2021	Dr. Mark Van Oyen	University of Michigan	Patient Experience versus Efficiency and Methods for Optimization with Machine Learning in Healthcare	View Recording
August 27, 2021	Dr. Edward Kaplan	Yale University	COVID-19 Scratch Models to Support Local Decisions	View Recording
June 25, 2021	Dr. Alvin Roth	Stanford University	Kidney Exchange: An Operations Perspective	View Recording

Infectious diseases continue to affect millions of people around the world every year, despite the progress in science and medicine. This presentation will provide an overview of our research team’s work on modeling various of infectious diseases, such as pandemic flu, cholera, malaria, polio, Guinea worm, and Covid-19. To understand the spread of infectious diseases and evaluate the impact of interventions, we utilized different modeling approaches, such as SEIR or agent-based, depending on the research questions or decision-support needs in practice. Our research results provide insights to decision-makers regarding the impact of combinations of interventions, considering factors such as compliance with public health recommendations, as well as the allocation of scare resources such as vaccines.

Seminar Organizers and Advisory Board

The seminar organizers for 2025 are Gian-Gabriel Garcia and Melike Yildirim.
The advisory board of the Year 2022 includes Mark Van Oyen (University of Michigan), Maria Mayorga (North Carolina State University), and Timothy Chan (University of Toronto).

Special thanks to INFORMS Health Applications Society and all board members for their enormous support!