SAMSI Fall Course - Operations Research Methods in Healthcare
Principal Instructor: V. Kulkarni
Course Day and Time: Course will be held at SAMSI (driving directions) in RTP on Wednesdays, 4:30-7:00 p.m. in Room 150.
Schedule: First class Wednesday, September 5, 2012 ; last class day, Thursday, December 6, 2012
Course Description:
This is a seminar-style course treating application of operations research methods such as stochastic modeling, queuing theory (including fluid models), optimization and simulation to problems in healthcare. Potential problems to be studied are data-based design of healthcare operations, patient flow, scheduling of facilities and personnel, management of transplant lists, mass casualty events and comparative effectiveness research. Students will be expected to read and make presentations of material from the relevant literature.
Registration for this course is being processed through your respective university:
Duke: STA 790-02
NCSU: MA 810.002
UNC: STOR 892.1
Questions about the course or the Healthcare program should be emailed to [email protected]
Wed November 14, 2012
Prof. Avi Mandelbaum will be the guest speaker tomorrow, Wed, Nov 14, in the Health Care class. He will speak on queueing models for health care.
Healthcare Course Meeting Sept 19th - NISS Room 104
This Wednesday, Sept 19th, the Healthcare Course will meet in the NISS classroom #104.
(Next week, Sept 26th, the course will go back to meeting in SAMSI room 150)
