College of Healthcare Operations Management

The 2010 Mini-Conference of POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management will be held on May 6th, 2010 in Vancouver, BC, Canada, prior to the POMS 2010 Meeting. The focus of the workshop will be on applications of operations management, and the dialog between healthcare professionals and OM scholars. The mini-conference will begin with a tour of Provincial Health Services Hospital, and continue with Healthcare Administrators Panel entitled “Big gains through Solving Small Problems”. The panelists include executives from Vancouver Coastal Hospitals, Lean Health Care West and Provincial Health Services. This panel will be followed by a series of speakers and a physician panel.

The conference will also include a poster presentation of healthcare operations management research in order to provide a platform for presenting research and connecting people with similar research interests.

Please see agenda of the miniconference for detailed schedule.
We look forward to seeing you at the mini-conference…

POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management (CHOM) aims to utilize operations management to improve the ability of health care systems around the globe to deliver high quality care efficiently and effectively. The College will host a one-day mini-conference on May 6th, 2010 in Vancouver prior to the POMS 2010 meeting. The focus of the workshop will be on applications of operations management, dialog between healthcare professionals and OM scholars, and a site visit to a Vancouver hospital.

To provide a platform for presenting research and connecting people with similar research interests, the workshop will include a poster presentation of health care operations management research.

Those interested in making a poster presentation should prepare a one-page abstract (Times New Roman style, font 12, single spaced). Kindly underline the name of the person(s) who will make the poster presentation. Authors of the selected abstracts need to prepare a summary of their submissions on up to twelve A4 or 8”x10” papers (please use large font sizes). The conference participants will walk around and review the posted research. Authors of accepted posters will have the option to publish the ideas and results presented in the poster in “printed” form or through an electronic proceedings for the Mini-Conference.

Kindly e-mail the abstract to Beste Kucukyazici (beste.kucukyazici@mail.mcgill.ca) or Anita Tucker (atucker@hbs.edu).

Deadline of Submission of Abstracts for Poster Presentation: February 15, 2010.

For further details about CHOM and the Conference visit http://www.poms.org/colleges/chom or contact Anita Tucker (atucker@hbs.edu).

Commencing September 2010, a number of PhD student and post-doctoral research fellow positions are available through the CREATE Program in Healthcare Operations and Information Management. Potential applicants can consult the Program homepage at http://create-hoim.mcgill.ca/index.html for more information on the Program as well as the application procedure. Please kindly circulate this information to your Master and PhD students.