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                                                     Seminar

             Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
                                  The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Title

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Operations Research in Medicine and Health Care

 

 

 

Speaker

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Prof. Eva Lee

 

 

H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

 

 

Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

 

Date

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Nov. 26th, 2010 (Friday)

 

 

 

Time

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4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

 

 

 

Venue

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Room 513

 

 

William M.W. Mong Engineering Building

 

 

(Engineering Building Complex Phase 2)

 

 

CUHK

 

 

 

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Abstract:
 

Operations research has long been a cornerstone for advancement of various industrial, government, and military applications. In particular, computational and modeling technologies play an increasingly important role in modern medicine, life sciences and health care. Many problems arising in these domains can be formulated into mathematical models and can be analyzed using sophisticated optimization, decision analysis, and computational techniques. In this talk, we will share some of our health care and medical experience in which operations research methodologies have be applied successfully. In particular, we will present the use of operations research in i) the treatment of cancer; ii) reducing medication errors; iii) chronic disease management; and iv) public health and medical preparedness, emergency response and disaster medicine.


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Biography:
 

Eva Lee is a Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Health Care. She is also the Co-Director of the Center for Health Organization Transformation, a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, and a Senior Health Systems Professor in the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Lee works in the area of mathematical programming, large-scale computational algorithms, and artificial intelligence, and tackles challenges arising from industrial problems through systems modeling, algorithms and software design, and decision theory analysis. Within healthcare, Dr. Lee's research areas span health risk prediction, early disease diagnosis and detection, optimal treatment strategies and drug delivery, healthcare outcome analysis and treatment prediction, public health and medical preparedness, large-scale healthcare/medical decision analysis, quality improvement, logistics operations management, health information technology, effective use of electronic medical records, and health organization transformation. Outside healthcare, Lee works with industrial practitioners to improve efficiency and quality of services through process and systems optimization, portfolio investment analysis, and organization transformation.


************************* ALL ARE WELCOME ************************

 

 

 

Host

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Prof. Leung May Yee, Janny

Tel

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(852)2609 8238

Email

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jannny@se.cuhk.edu.hk

 

 

 

Enquiries

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Prof. Nan Chen or Prof. Sean X. Zhou

 

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Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

 

 

CUHK

Website

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http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~seem5201

Email

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seem5201@se.cuhk.edu.hk

 

 

 

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