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3-Day symposium: Healthcare logistics: balancing between practice and theory

December 13-15 2017, CHOIR organized the symposium “Healthcare logistics: balancing between practice and theory”, being held at the University of Twente.

On Wednesday, the symposium was targeted at healthcare professionals, and therefore will be in Dutch, more information can be found here.

On Thursday we continued in English with presentations on blood collection logistics, followed by the PhD defense of Sem van Brummelen of his thesis "Bloody fast blood collection".

On Friday presentations were scheduled on healthcare logistics projects, followed by the PhD defense of Gréanne Leeftink of her thesis "Why wait? Organizing Integrated Processes in Cancer Care".  

  • Program Thursday December 14th

    The logistics of the blood supply chain are the topic of the symposium on this day, finishing with the public thesis defense of the dissertation of Sem van Brummelen, titeld: "Bloody fast blood collection". The preliminary program is as follows:

    Time

    Speaker

    Presentation title

    9:30


    Registration and coffee

    10:00

    Richard Boucherie (CHOIR)

    Welcome

    10:10

    Katja van den Hurk (Sanquin)

    Donor health research

    10:35

    John Blake (Dalhousie University, Canada)

    Modelling rare blood inventory at Canadian blood services

    11:00

    Inneke van Nieuwenhuyse (UHasselt and KU Leuven, Belgium)

    How capacity limitations affect patient health: an empirical study of a hematology ward

    11:30


    Lunch

    12:15

    Wim de Kort (Sanquin)

    OR in a blood bank setting

    12:45

    Lisa Maillart (University of Pittsburgh)

    Optimal pooling, batching and pasteurizing of donor human milk

    13:15

    Joost van Sambeeck (Sanquin and CHOIR)

    Blood group specific issuing policies to improve the inventory management of red blood cells

    13:45


    Pauze

    14:30

    Public thesis defense of Sem van Brummelen

    "Bloody fast blood collection"



    Reception to follow

  • Program Friday December 15th

    This day the symposium continues with presentations about the design and control of health care processes, and finishes with the public thesis defense of the dissertation of Gréanne Leeftink, titled: "Why wait? Organizing integrated processes in cancer care". The line-up is a mix of presentations from national and international speakers, the preliminary program is as follows:

    Time

    Speaker

    Presentation title

    9:30


    Registration and coffee

    10:00 

    Erwin Hans (CHOIR)

    Welcome

    10:10  

    Michel Zeilmaker (UMC Utrecht)

    Hospital Capacity Management UMC Utrecht: part 1

    10:40  

    Yara Basta (AMC) 

    Implementation of fast track multidisciplinary gastrointestinal oncology care 

    11:10  

    Kalyan Pasupathy (Mayo Clinic, USA) 

    Operations Research in Healthcare: the science/practice continuum 

    11:40  



    Pauze

    12:00  

    Aleida Braaksma (MIT and CHOIR) 


    Why wait? Don't reserve!

    12:30  

    Bruno Vieira (NKI-AVL and CHOIR)

    Minimizing waiting times in radiotherapy though an efficient allocation of radiation therapy technologists under uncertain demand

    13:00  



    Lunch

    14:00  

    Willem de Vries (WKZ)  

    Capacity dilemma's on a neonatal intensive care unit

    14:30  

    Bart van Acker (Radboud UMC)

    The Dutch are famous for managing water, but what about managing patient flow within hospitals?

    15:00  

    Niels Christian Bagger (Denmark Technical University, Denmark) 

    Applied nurse rostering at Danish hospitals in Region Zealand

    15:30  


    Pauze

    16:30  

    Public thesis defense of Gréanne Leeftink

    "Why wait? Organizing integrated processes in cancer care"

     


    Reception to follow

Background information on the speakers and their presentation can be found here.

We thank our generous sponsors for funding this event.