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Asia Barnes (BSIE 2014, MBA 2021) and Sheereen Brown (BSIE 2013, MSHS 2014) co-founded Between in 2022 with the goal of making on-demand, high-quality, in-person gynecological care a reality. Between allows patients to book same- and next-day gynecological appointments, where they can be seen by certified nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, and OB-GYNs, with all services available during flexible hours, including weekends. Congratulations to you both for your success!  

Congratulations to Tuba Yilmaz-Gozbasi (MSOR 2011, Ph.D. 2013) for being chosen as a member of Georgia Tech's 40 Under 40 class of 2023! Tuba worked as an operations research consultant at Solvoyo and an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Özyeğin University Faculty of Business. She is currently cofounder and COO of Optiyol, a delivery management SaaS, offering a route optimization engine and a mobile driver app with live tracking capabilities to increase delivery efficiency and improve customer service.

Congratulations to April (Zhuoting) Yu for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis, which spanned multiple topics in healthcare, including personalized childhood immunization scheduling recommendations, vaccine pricing within group purchasing organizations, the impact of testing and self-isolation on the spread of COVID-19, and survival analysis for split liver transplantation. April joined NC State Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (NCStateISE) in August, we wish her the best! 

Congratulations to Buse Eylul Oruc Aglar! Buse successfully defended her PhD thesis in August, which included (i) modeling the spread of COVID-19 and (ii) evaluating the impact of various interventions, as well as (iii) graph partitioning problems motivated by post-disaster debris collection. She was co-advised by Professors Pinar Keskinocak and Mohit Singh, and is now a Senior Operations Research Analyst with UPS. Congratulations Buse, and we wish you the best!

Congratulations to Francis LaRossa for becoming a double-jacket! He recently graduated with his Master of Science in Health Systems, while working as the Director of Government Quality Programs at Piedmont Healthcare. Francis also earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Georgia Tech. Congratulations on your great accomplishments, Francis!

Congratulations to Mihir Kandarpa for graduating with his BS in Industrial Engineering! During his time at Georgia Tech, Mihir has worked with the US Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC, and the Pan American Health Organization. He is taking his passion for improving health systems to The George Washington University- Milken Institute School of Public Health in Washington, DC, where he will pursue a M.P.H. in Global Health Epidemiology and Disease Control. We are so excited for you, Mihir! 

Convened this year in Kenya, the 2-day hybrid event serves as a platform through which practitioners can learn, share, and engage on important and challenging topics and practices relevant to today’s health and humanitarian supply chains. The event will include presentations, case studies, and discussions with high level engagement. Please visit the conference website for details.

The 2023 HSNG forum will take place on Tuesday, October 31st, and will center on whole health with an equity lens, and will include a panel, rapid fire presentations, poster sessions, opportunities for networking, and a collaborative lunch. 

Since its inauguration in 2016, the forum has brought together professionals, students and scholars from across the fields of healthcare delivery, operations and education focused on promoting and maintaining wellness by identifying important trends in healthcare system applications and designs, opportunities for collaboration, and the future of health systems. Registration opens soon! 

Over 100,000 patients are waiting for an organ transplant in the US. A recent paper "Predicting a kidney transplant patient’s pre-transplant functional status based on information from waitlist registration" describes a model to predict a patient’s pre-transplant functional status based on information known at the time of waitlist registration, co-authored by Ethan Mark (Ph.D. 2019), Dave Goldsman, Pinar Keskinocak, and Joel Sokol, from Georgia Tech H. Milton Stewart School of ISyE and Brian Gurbaxani from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Here is a short video highlighting the contributions of this research. 

Song Wei, a PhD candidate, will present a paper titled "Granger Causal Chain Discovery for Sepsis-Associated Derangements via Continuous-Time Hawkes Processes" at the ACM SIGKDD Conference On Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) for Healthcare at Long Beach, CA. Wei is advised by Associate Professor Yao Xie. The paper is a joint effort with Dr. Kamaleswaran’s team from Emory University. Here is a short presentation video.