Johns Hopkins Symposium on Healthcare Operations

{{Infobox recurring event
| name = The johns Hopkins Symposium on Healthcare Operations
| image = Johns_Hopkins_Symposium_on_Healthcare_Operations.jpg
| first = 2016
| location = [[The Johns Hopkins University]], [[Baltimore, Maryland]]
| genre = Multidisciplinary forum
| organized = Tinglong Dai; Ozge Sahin
| website ={{URL|http://carey.jhu.edu/johns-hopkins-symposium-on-healthcare-operations}}
}}

The '''Johns Hopkins Symposium on Healthcare Operations''' is an annual conference series, sponsored by [[Johns Hopkins University]]'s [[Carey Business School]] and supported by [[Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions|Johns Hopkins]]'s business and medical faculty.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hub.jhu.edu/events/2016/10/01/johns-hopkins-symposium-on-healthcare-operations/ |title= Johns Hopkins Symposium on Healthcare Operations: When organ transplantation meets operations research | publisher=hub.jhu.edu | date= August 2016 | accessdate = October 5, 2016 }}</ref> This international symposium is the first and only multi-disciplinary forum bringing together internationally acclaimed medical doctors, operations researchers and policymakers, with a focus on policy-related research on the delivery of healthcare.

== Symposium structure ==
The symposium brings together leading [[business school]], [[engineering school]] and [[mathematics]] scholars, [[medical doctors]], and [[Health policy|health policy makers]] to share the latest advances in [[operations research]] applied to [[healthcare]], and promote [[Multidisciplinary approach|multidisciplinary]] dialogues among [[Academia|academics]], practitioners, and [[Policy maker|policymakers]].

Each year, the symposium focuses on one medical specialty, for example, in the case of 2016, [[transplant surgery]].

== 2016 Symposium: When Organ Transplantation Meets Operations Research ==

The theme of the first symposium, held on October 1, 2016, was "When [[Organ Transplantation]] Meets [[Operations Research]]." The 2016 symposium brought together [[operations research]]ers, [[transplant surgeon]]s, and [[policymakers]] to share [...]-edge research and practice in [[organ donation]], allocation, and transplantation.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://archive.carey.jhu.edu/johns-hopkins-symposium-on-healthcare-operations | title= Johns Hopkins Symposium on Healthcare Operations, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, October 1, 2016 | publisher = carey.jhu.edu | date = October 1, 2016 | accessdate = October 4, 2016 }}</ref> The organizing committee was co-chaired by Tinglong Dai and Ozge Sahin from [[Johns Hopkins University]], and also consists of Sommer Gentry from [[United States Naval Academy]], [[Dorry Segev]] from [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]], and [[Sridhar Tayur]] from [[Carnegie Mellon University]].

The attendees include [[operations research]] / [[operations management]] scholars from major business and engineer schools, transplant surgeons, medical doctors, and medical researchers from both United States and Canada. Representatives from [[Health Resources and Services Administration]], [[Organ transplantation|Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients]], [[Organ procurement organization|OPOs]], and private Insurers such as [[Highmark]] also attended the symposium.

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!style="width:450px"| Topic
! Speaker
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| 1 || [[Kidney Paired Donation|Paired Kidney Exchange]] || [[Robert Montgomery (physician)|Robert Montgomery]] from [[NYU Langone Medical Center]].
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| 2 || Maryland Aggregate Pathology Index (MAPI): Development, Validation, and Future Research || Benjamin Philosophe from [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]]
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| 3 || MY-ATLAS: Mapping [[Hepatocellular carcinoma|HCC]] Tumor Biology to Compute Equitable Exception Points || [[Sridhar Tayur]] from [[Carnegie Mellon University]]
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| 4 || Mitigating [[Information asymmetry|Information Asymmetry]] in Liver Allocation || Andrew Schaefer from [[Rice University]]
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| 5 || Applying [[Algorithm]]s to [[Organ transplantation|Organ Transplantation]] || John Roberts from [[University of California, San Francisco]]
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| 6 || An [[Analytics]]-based Decision System for Kidney Offer Acceptance || [[Dimitris Bertsimas]] from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
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| 7 || OrganJet: Overcoming Geographical Disparities in Access to Deceased Donor Kidneys || Baris Ata from [[University of Chicago]]
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| 8 || [[Gerrymandering]] for Justice: Redistricting U.S. Liver Allocation || Sommer Gentry from [[United States Naval Academy]]
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| 9 || Matching and Participation in [[Kidney Paired Donation|Kidney Exchange]] || Itai Ashlagi from [[Stanford University]]
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| 10 || [[Organ procurement organization|OPO]] Operations || Charles Alexander from [[Organ procurement organization|Living Legacy]]
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| 11 || Risk Assessment for Transplant-Transmissible Infectious [[Encephalitis]] || Pinar Keskinocak from [[Georgia Institute of Technology]]
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| 12 || Panel: How to Bridge Academic Research, Policymaking, and Medical Practice || [[Dimitris Bertsimas]]; Sommer Gentry; John Roberts; [[Sridhar Tayur]]
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