INFORMS Open Forum

2022 Pierskalla Best Paper Competition – Papers are due June 24, 2022

Pierskalla Award

The Health Applications Society of INFORMS sponsors an annual competition for the Pierskalla
Award, which recognizes research excellence in the field of health care management science.
The award includes an honorarium for the best paper presented in a Health Applications Society
sponsored session at the annual INFORMS conference. The award is named after Dr. William
Pierskalla to recognize his contribution and dedication to improving health services delivery
through operations research. Dr. Pierskalla is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the
Anderson School at UCLA and the Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor Emeritus, The Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania, and serves as an editor on numerous operations research
journals.

Eligibility

To be considered for the award, a full paper must be submitted by the application deadline to
the Chairs of the Pierskalla Committee (see Application Process details below). The submission
can be a working paper, a paper under review, or a previously published paper, and is not
restricted to papers written by students. If desired by the authors, the winning paper will be
published in Health Care Management Science if it has not been published or is not under
review elsewhere.

Judging

Papers are judged by a panel of committee members on:

• Contribution to operations research/management science in health care
• Readability, clarity, and organization of the paper
• Technical content and scope relative to the length of the paper
• Originality

Finalists will be selected and invited to present their work at the INFORMS annual meeting in a
session devoted to the competition. The panel judging the papers reserves the right not to
award a prize in any given year.

Application Process

A complete entry consists of a completely anonymous paper in PDF format that meets the
following criteria:

• Author(s) names or affiliations should not appear anywhere in the paper.
• At most 32 pages excluding the appendix but including tables, figures, and references. The paper must include all material necessary for judges to assess its technical correctness and confirm the validity of results.
• The formatting standards for submitting a paper to major INFORMS journals (such as Management Science or Operations Research) apply.
• The filename of the submitted paper should be ShortTitleOfThePaper.pdf.

The above document should be uploaded at the following link:
https://cmu.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0PQJVVpOnN898lo

Complete entries must be received by 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth) June 24, 2022.


Any question(s) related to the competition should be sent by email to:
pierskalla2022@gmail.com.

The winning paper will not be announced until the Health Applications Society's business meeting at the INFORMS annual meeting.

2022 Committee Chairs

Kyra Gan & Andrew Li, Carnegie Mellon University

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Kyra Gan
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA
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