College of Healthcare Operations Management

The mission of the College of Healthcare Operations Management is to encourage interest in applications of operations management in the healthcare industry and to bring together the diverse groups involved in improving healthcare operations in a supportive structure that facilitates research, dialog, and education on the topic.

Please see the current draft of the CHOM bylaws (Word format) for additional detail on management of the College.

The Mission and Bylaws will be undergoing revision and final versions will be posted once the College membership have completed the review.

Founding Board
President: Vedat Verter (McGill University)
VP of Meetings & Membership: Craig Froehle (University of Cincinnati)
VP of Outreach & Awards: Gino Lim (University of Houston)
Treasurer: Paul Gemmel (Ghent University)
Secretary: Sarang Deo (Northwestern University)
Online Editor: Beste Kucukyazici (McGill University)
Advisory Board Liaison: Ken Klassen (Brock University)

Advisory Board
Chair: Ken Klassen (Brock University)
Stephen Chick (INSEAD)
Sylvain Landry (HEC - Montreal)
Arielle Lasry (U.S. CDC)
Gautham Suresh (Dartmouth Hitchcock)
Anita Tucker (Harvard University)

A Conference on Improving Patient Care by Rethinking Processes, Systems and Organizations

September 18-19, 2008, Medical Education and Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Healthcare providers are under increasing pressure to reduce waste and eliminate unnecessary costs while improving the quality and consistency of the care they provide. As a result, more attention is turning to the operational enablers of care, such as responsive patient and provider scheduling systems, efficient and timely patient flow management, and technology-enabled decision-support tools.

Increasingly, practitioners and academics from across the medicine-business-engineering spectrum and beyond are focusing their efforts on helping healthcare providers improve both the quality and efficiency of care. Innovations in systems and process analysis, OR/patient flow, automation and expert systems, scheduling policies, advanced analytical techniques, and other contemporary sciences are being applied to address the myriad challenges facing health care today.

The Innovations in Healthcare Delivery conference series brings together healthcare managers, physicians, and researchers from a variety of backgrounds and specialties to present and discuss new insights and creative solutions for the efficient delivery of high-quality care.

IHD2008 is jointly sponsored by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the University of Cincinnati, and the POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management.

For more information, contact:
Amy Borgert
3333 Burnet Ave.
MLC 7014
Cincinnati, OH 45229
513-636-0161

For additional information and updates, please see the conference website: http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/ihd-conference

ORAHS 2008 will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from July 28 to August 1, 2008. ORAHS is the EURO working group on operations research applied to health services. This will be the first time in ORAHS history that the annual meeting venue is in North America. Appropriately, the theme is International Perspectives on Operations Research and Health Care. This conference will be a great opportunity to share ideas with fellow health care operation researchers from North America, Europe and the world.