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" |
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| 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" |
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| Reception to follow |
Background information on the speakers and their presentation can be found here.
We thank our generous sponsors for funding this event.

