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Research Subject

My research considers shared resources in hospitals. Examples of shared resources are MRI-scans, intensive care-beds and operating rooms. These resources are often among the most expensive in a hospital. Because of that there usually is a shortage and they form a bottleneck in the care chains for the patiens. This means that the resources must be used optimally.
The question is how to do that. How much capacity is enough? Should that capacity even be shared, and if so, in what way? And how can a hospital decide how much of that capacity to allocate to a certain department? And finally, by which scheduling method should that allocated capacity be filled with patients?

Contact information

CC Zorgadviseurs
Houttuinlaan 14
3447 GM Woerden
+31 (0)348 493000

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday

VU University
Department of Mathematics
De Boelelaan 1081a (room R450)
1081HV Amsterdam
+31 (0)20 5987779

On Thursday and Friday

Curriculum vitae

Since 09/2007 PhD student at
CC Zorgadviseurs in cooperation with the OBP Research Group, Department of Mathematics, VU Amsterdam.
2002-2007 Classical languages, VU University. Master Thesis: The textual transmission of Archimedes' Arenarius.
2001-2007 Business Mathematics and Informatics, VU University. Internship at VUmc, regarding the patient flow after cardiac surgery (part of the paper can be found here).

Presentations & Publications

05/08: Presentation at PICA seminar on May 19 2008 [
slides]
11/08: Presentation at Conference Operations Research and health care at EUR on November 18 2008 [slides]
02/09: Presentation at PICA seminar on February 28 2009 [slides]
07/09: Presentation at ORAHS conference Leuven on July 14 2009 [slides]
10/09: Presentation at Informs annual meeting in San Diego on October 14 2009 [slides]
01/10: Presentation at LNMB conference Lunteren on January 14 2010 [slides]
03/10: Presentation at IMA Conference on Quantitative Modelling in the Management of Health Care London on March 30 2010 [slides]
07/10: Presentation at ORAHS conference Genova on July 22 2010 [slides]


March 2010: Optimal patient and personnel scheduling policies for care-at-home service facilities, with Sandjai Bhulai (submitted) [pdf]
July 2010: Scheduling admissions and reducing variability in bed demand, with Rene Bekker (submitted) [pdf]
November 2010: Optimal outpatient appointment scheduling with emergency arrivals and general service times, with Ger Koole (submitted) [pdf]

Interesting Links

Operations research and health care:
Health Care applications at the OBP research group
The UK network for modelling and simulation in health care, MASHnet
Health Applications Section at INFORMS
Institute For Health Care Improvement

Other:
CC Zorgadviseurs
MathSciNet


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