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".
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
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"
