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.

More details, including schedule of the conference and registration information, will be posted shortly.
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).

A full-time opening for a Post-Doctoral Associate is available for the 2009-2010 Academic year in the area of Health Care Operations Management. The project is in the area of benchmarking for process management in health care delivery. This includes an adaptation of our work on industrial excellence in the manufacturing setting (http://www.beste-fabrik.de/index.php?id=51) to the area of hospital management. The project is to develop conceptual models and implement empirical analysis for benchmarking the effectiveness of management practice in hospitals in the Middle East and in Europe.<./p>

Applicants should have a PhD in operations research, operations management, industrial engineering or health care management. Successful applicants will have skills in process design and analysis, an understanding of continuous improvement in a manufacturing or health care setting, an understanding of hospital processes, and the ability to conduct an empirical study. Modeling skills are a differentiator.

The post-doc will be based in INSEAD’s center for research and executive education in Abu Dhabi, UAE (http://www.insead.edu/centreinabudhabi/research/index.cfm). A travel allowance is available for participation in international conferences and working with faculty on other sites and benefits are competitive. INSEAD’s Healthcare Management Initiative (HMI, http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/centres/isic/healthcare_management_initiative/index.cfm) is active in Abu Dhabi. The post-doc would be working locally with the HMI Research Programme Manager and others in the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, and with faculty at other sites through phone/viseo conferences and cross-campus visits.

Please send a CV and a letter of motivation Stephen Chick (http://faculty.insead.edu/chick/) at: stephen.chick@insead.edu

The position can start in Fall 2009. Some flexibility can be afforded for an ideal candidate. Applications will be accepted through July 30 or until position is filled.