Program for stream Sessions

MC-01: Simulation 1
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R5
Chair(s): Roberto Aringhieri

• Comparative analysis of parametric and nonparametric probability distributions for uncertainty quantification in simulation studies
  Sara Garber
• Optimizing Healthcare Resources through AI-Enhanced Diabetic Foot Screening: A Long-Term Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
  YAN SUN, Gary Ang, Lixia Ge, Zhiwen Lo, huiling Liew, Donna Tan, Daniel Chew, John Abisheganaden
• Managing the Ripple Effect: Dynamic Waiting Lists, Resource Constraints, and Adaptive Hospital Case Mix Planning for Internal Management and External Influence
  Sebastian Kraul
• How different drivers can influence patients' decisions
  Roberto Aringhieri, Luca Bartoletti

MC-02: Implementation
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R8
Chair(s): Gréanne Leeftink

• Condorcet ranking for developing co-designed outcome measures in clinical research under the “Tournament Methods” framework
  HANNAH JOHNS, Leonid Churilov
• Perinatal mental health plan assessment in Ile de France region (IDF)
  Catherine Crenn-Hebert, Bruno RENEVIER
• From models to implementation: the impact of embedded OR research in a Dutch hospital
  Gréanne Leeftink, Erwin W. Hans, Hayo Bos

MC-03: Staff scheduling
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R9
Chair(s): David Ajit Kirpekar-Sauer

• Operating room scheduling under limited turnover staff
  Gabriela Pinto Espinosa, Aida Jebali, Erik Demeulemeester, Angel Ruiz
• Nurse to patient ratios in South Africa and its impact on nurse and patient outcomes
  Siedine Coetzee, Jacoba Bührmann
• An automated doctor rostering decision support tool for Knysna Hospital
  Klara Engelbrecht, Linke Potgieter
• Healthcare staffing using split shifts
  David Ajit Kirpekar-Sauer, Jens Brunner

MD-01: Home healthcare
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R5
Chair(s): Fatemeh Alidoost

• Barriers to Participation in Personalised Home Care: A COM-B-Informed Review of Self-Directed Support and International Models
  Shafkat Ibrahimy, Le Khanh Ngan Nguyen, Lynn Williams, Itamar Megiddo
• Enabling Efficient Telemedicine: The Potential of OR/OM Applications in Healthcare Delivery
  Ali Ghavamifar, Jens Brunner
• Multi-Objective Models for Efficient and Patient-Centered Home Healthcare Routing and Scheduling
  Soumen Atta, Michael Emmerich, Vitor Basto-Fernandes
• Investigating the Incorporation of Circular Economy, Resilience, and Sustainability Concepts in Healthcare Supply Chain Modelling: A Narrative Review with Expert Insights
  Fatemeh Alidoost

MD-02: Patient to room
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R8
Chair(s): Thierry Garaix

• Generating realistic patient data
  Tabea Brandt, Christina Büsing, Johanna Leweke
• Allocating Patients to Rooms under Uncertainty: An MDP-Based Approach
  Philipp Pelz, Justus Arne Schwarz, Alexander Hübner, Fabian Schäfer
• Trade-off analysis of different objective functions for the patient-to-room assignment problem
  Johanna Leweke, Christina Büsing, Tabea Brandt
• Optimizing Case-Mix Planning at the Territorial Level : A Pathway-Centered and Resource-Aware Approach
  Thierry Garaix, Louis Dublois, Yannick Kergosien

MD-03: ED and ICU
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R9
Chair(s): Daniel García-Vicuña

• Addressing Emergency Department Overcrowding through Efficient Queue Management: a Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
  Luca Zattoni, Andrea Eusebi, Cristiano Fabbri, Marco Leonessi, Enrico Malaguti, Paolo Tubertini
• ICU capacity management: An AI-based transparent scoring model for integrated clinical decision support
  Christina Bartenschlager
• Keep Waiting or Leave Without Being Seen? The Impact of Early Assessment in Emergency Departments
  Chiara Morlotti, Mattia Cattaneo
• Dynamic Predictive Modeling for Decision Support and Patient Management in Intensive Care Units
  Daniel García-Vicuña, Ana María Anaya-Arenas, Janosch Ortmann, Angel Ruiz, Fermin Mallor

ME-01: Access to care
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R5
Chair(s): Felipe Rodrigues

• Understanding the Impact of Accessibility on Hemodialysis Outcomes in India
  Sachin Bodke, Narayan Rangaraj
• On Surgery Ward Resilience: Quantitative Concepts, Evaluation, and Analysis
  Gabriela Ciolacu, Siamak Khayyati, Emilia Grass
• A systematic review of studies that mention the implementation of OR in health services
  Guillaume Lamé, Coco Newton, Luca Grieco, Sonya Crowe, Tom Bashford, Saba Hinrichs-Krapels
• Using queueing games and contract theory to improve access to care: The case of the Ontario Autism Program
  Felipe Rodrigues, Saha Malaki, Salar Ghamat, Camila Pedroso Estevan de Souza, Greg Zaric

ME-02: Cancer and personalised care
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R8
Chair(s): Christos Vasilakis

• From Theory to Clinic: Operationalizing Evolutionary Cancer Therapy for Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
  Arina Soboleva, Kailas Honasoge, Eva Molnárová, Irene Grossmann, Jafar Rezaei, Katerina Stankova
• An Online Algorithm for Integrated Scheduling of Pre-Treatment and Treatment Appointments in Radiotherapy using Deep Reinforcement Learning
  Maxim Frankish, Broos Maenhout
• Distributionally Robust Chance Constraints for VMAT Treatment Planning
  Houra Mahmoudzadeh, Stoyan Hristov, Johnson Darko, Ernest Osei
• Innovative Approaches to Managing Demand and Capacity in Mental Health
  Christos Vasilakis, Elizabeth Yardley, Alice Davis

ME-03: Appointment scheduling
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R9
Chair(s): Jedidja Lok - Visser

• Predictive decision-support tool for improved nurse scheduling through the application of artificial intelligence
  Agita Solzemniece, Jens Brunner
• Warm-Starting Outpatient Appointment Scheduling Using Historical Solutions
  Sara Cambiaghi, Davide Duma
• The impact of forecasting: Dynamic appointment scheduling with elective and semi-urgent patients
  Jedidja Lok - Visser

TA-01: Surgery scheduling 1
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R5
Chair(s): Jacoba Bührmann

• Fairness and efficiency, can we achieve both? A case study in training of vascular surgery trainees
  Alice Daldossi, Viola Clerici, Roberto Aringhieri, Erwin W. Hans
• Evaluation of the performance of machine learning models for the prediction of the operating room occupation time of non-elective surgeries
  Anem Dupré, Oualid Jouini, Guillaume Lamé, Thomas Botrel
• Predicting nurse turnover intention using machine learning algorithms
  Jacoba Bührmann, Siedine Coetzee, Maria Van Zyl, Alwiena Blignaut

TA-02: EMS and cyber attacks
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R8
Chair(s): Marion Rauner

• Mapping and assessing cyberattack propagation through digitally interconnected hospitals
  Abhilasha Bakre
• Quantitatively measuring cyber risk in healthcare
  Aiman Zainab, Emilia Grass
• Using simulation modelling to compare the impact of alternative hospital operational policies on patient outcomes following flood disasters
  Sorour Farahi, Steffen Bayer, Stephan Onggo, Sally Brailsford
• Experimental investigation of personality and strategy types of paramedics from the Austrian Red Cross
  Marion Rauner, Julia Kaltenböck, Benjamin Erbschwendtner, Ayşegül Engin

TA-03: Location and logistics
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R9
Chair(s): Angel Ruiz

• Inventory management for mobile clinics in the Witzenberg region, South Africa
  Isabelle Nieuwoudt, Linke Potgieter, Natasha Sibanda
• A Novel Cross-Entropy Heuristic for Location-Allocation Problems in Healthcare Applications
  Mark Tuson, Owen Jones, Elizabeth Williams, Paul Harper
• Optimising Department Allocation in Hospital Layouts
  Allan Larsen, Gaspard Hosteins, David Ajit Kirpekar-Sauer, Dario Pacino
• Improving accessibility to basic healthcare services by mobile clinics
  Angel Ruiz, Julia Isabel Serrato Fonseca, Ana María Anaya-Arenas

TB-01: Poster session
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R5
Chair(s): Joe Viana

TC-01: Analytics and healthcare management
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R5
Chair(s): Thomas Kingsley

• Prediction of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Using Bayesian Networks
  Malavika Krishnakumar, Vivek Lakshmanan, Georg Gutjahr, Ulla Hellstrand Tang, Agnetha Folestad
• Optimizing Total Flow Time in Hospital Sterilization Departments Using Column Generation
  Robin Schlembach, Sebastian Schiffels, Jens Brunner
• MEASURING THE EFFECT OF DEPRIVATION ON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PERFORMANCE USING DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS AND MALMQUIST INDICES
  Holly Merelie, Carla Amado, Sérgio Santos
• Hierarchical Bayesian Model for 30-Day Hospital Census Forecasting and Resource Optimization at a Large Academic Medical Center
  Thomas Kingsley

TC-02: Integrated planning
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R8
Chair(s): Sara Ceschia

• Swap-Stability in Nurse-to-Patient Assignment considering personal preferences
  Bianca Lauer, Christina Büsing, Gréanne Leeftink
• An Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search Approach for the Integrated Patient-to-Room and Nurse-to-Patient Assignment Problem
  Emily Lex, Fabian Schäfer, Alexander Hübner
• The Integrated Healthcare Timetabling Competition 2024 (IHTC-2024)
  Sara Ceschia, Roberto Maria Rosati, Andrea Schaerf, Pieter Smet, Greet Vanden Berghe, Eugenia Zanazzo
• A Two-Step Matheuristic for the Integrated Healthcare Timetabling Problem
  Camille Pinçon, Nohaila Ahssinou, Flore Caye, Prakash Gawas

TC-03: Optimisation
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R9
Chair(s): Christina Büsing

• Elective Case Scheduling under Surgery Duration Uncertainty
  Sonja Weiland, Martina Kuchlbauer, Lorenza Moreno, Alexander Müller
• Resilience Optimization of a Network of Hospitals Against Cyberattacks
  Stephan Helfrich
• Coin making problem to Outpatient Pharmacy Automation System
  Kiok Liang Teow, Eric Yang, Jabigo Mark Anthony Cadinong, Hong Yee Lim, Yong Chuan Goh, Hui Hui Wang, Edmund Liew, Supadhara Ramaiyah, ZHECHENG ZHU
• Fair planning of out-of-hours service for pharmacies
  Christina Büsing, Timo Gersing

TD-01: Blood and sepsis
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R5
Chair(s): John Blake

• A Discrete-Event Simulation Model to Improve Blood Component Production
  Aleyna Gürsoy, ROBERTO PINTO, Federico Piccinini, Davide Ghezzi, Ettore Lanzarone
• Optimising Early Warning Systems: Exploring Enhanced Digital Sepsis Alerts and Equity Challenges in Patient Care
  Kate Honeyford, Alf Timney, Ceire Costelloe
• Sequential Selection of Biomarkers in Sepsis Risk Scores Using Reinforcement Learning
  Anandakrishnan Nandakumar, Dipu T. S., Georg Gutjahr
• Facilities Planning at CBS to meet collection targets in the 2030’s
  John Blake

TD-02: System dynamics
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R8
Chair(s): Esma Gel

• Using system dynamics to assess the availability of emergency care at a regional level
  Matthew Pentecost, Britt Zweers, Geert-Jan Kommer, Ingrid Seinen, Victoria Shestalova, Jeljer Hoekstra
• Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach.
  Le Khanh Ngan Nguyen, Holly McCabe, Susan Howick, Itamar Megiddo, Soumen Sengupta, Alec Morton
• Investigating health policies in childhood obesity using system modelling
  Hannah Callaghan, Linke Potgieter
• Simulation and Optimization Approaches for Pandemic Response: EpiMORPH
  Esma Gel, Sanjay Mehrotra, Joseph Mihaljevic

HC-04: Innovation 1
Stream: Sessions
Room: St Olavs, Kunnskapssenteret KA12
Chair(s): Kjartan Kastet Klyve

• Integrated care modelling utilising a shared patient information system
  Joe Viana, Anders N. Gullhav, Heidi Dreyer, Marte Holmemo, Aud U Obstefelder, Hanne M. Rostad, Øystein Døhl
• Explainable Optimisation in Healthcare
  Felix Engelhardt, Christina Büsing, Catherine Cleophas
• Introducing capacity planning in home care
  Annelies Van Der Ham
• Algorithmic surgical planning at Oslo University Hospital
  Kjartan Kastet Klyve, Adrian Jensen, Jørgen André Schreiner

HC-05: Innovation 2
Stream: Sessions
Room: St Olavs, Kunnskapssenteret KA11
Chair(s): Alexander Rutherford

• The last mile of research: How do we spread ORAHS’ knowledge and make it stick?
  Sebastian Rachuba, Erwin W. Hans
• Balancing waiting lists and workloads in hospitals
  Rob Vromans
• Developing an Embedded Program for Operations Research Applied to Community Health Services and Public Health in a Canadian Health System: A Discussion of Lessons Learned
  Alexander Rutherford, Jessica Stockdale, Krisztina Vasarhelyi
• Activity planning for surgeons with Deepinsight
  Arvind Chawla

HD-04: Poster session 2
Stream: Sessions
Room: St Olavs, Kunnskapssenteret KA12
Chair(s): Aina Goday

• A multiperiod resource minimization model for rural emergency medical services networks with ground and air ambulances
  Lieke Jansen, Iris F.A. Vis, Ilke Bakir, Durk-Jouke van der Zee
• Panel Size Management for Enhanced Patient Care: A Data-Driven Simulation Approach
  Mina Moeini, Jessica Stockdale, Alexander Rutherford, Krisztina Vasarhelyi, Le Tuan Minh Nguyen, Jacob Umbach, Tarnjit McCauley, Cassandra Djurfors, Jenny Hamilton Harding, Kenneth Hawkins, Harleen Arora
• When Every Minute Counts: Predictive Modeling and Simulation in Organ Donation Management
  Arianna Freda, Maurizio Naldi, Gaia Nicosia, Andrea Pacifici, Gianfranco Teti, Mariano Feccia
• Reusable Simulation of Emergency Departments: A Domain-Specific Modelling Language Approach
  BoFan Zhang, Steffen Zschaler
• Volatility-stratified surgical portfolios with layered spackling strategy for operating room capacity planning
  Chao Pan, Erik Demeulemeester
• The impact of forecasting: Dynamic appointment scheduling with elective and semi-urgent patients
  Jedidja Lok - Visser

HF-04: Innovation 3
Stream: Sessions
Room: St Olavs, Kunnskapssenteret KA12
Chair(s): Simen T. Vadseth

• Process Mining in Clinical Pathways: Bridging Challenges and Opportunities
  Luca Murazzano, Paolo Landa, Jean-Baptiste Gartner, Andre Cote
• Process Mining Electronic Health Records of People with Multiple Sclerosis: A 5-year Longitudinal Study.
  Märt Vesinurm
• Staffing for Flexibility: Dimensioning and Scheduling Nursing Pools - A Case Study from St. Olav’s Hospital
  Aina Goday
• Automatized nurse rostering at St. Olav’s Hospital
  Simen T. Vadseth, Thomas Bovim

HF-05: Innovation 4
Stream: Sessions
Room: St Olavs, Kunnskapssenteret KA11
Chair(s): Joe Viana

• Straight Home: An initiative to reduce the number of discharge ready patients
  Tone Beate Svee, Ida Rasmussen Bjerke, Joe Viana
• Allocating operating room capacity to non-elective patients improves access and safety for elective patients at Aarhus University Hospital (DK)
  Maartje Zonderland
• Constructing a polarity lexicon for depression-specific for sentiment analysis of social media posts
  Kurt Marais
• Personnel scheduling in hospital emergency departments
  Anniek Pelleboer, Henrik Andersson, Thomas Bovim, Anders N. Gullhav, Gréanne Leeftink

FA-01: Simulation 2
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R5
Chair(s): Marie Petit

• Modeling strategic-level decision-making in specialized healthcare using simulation, with a focus on reducing waiting lists in traumatology services.
  Miguel Baigorri, Marta Cildoz, Fermin Mallor
• Evaluating the impact of staffing recommendations in maternity units in France: combining simulation and time-and-motion study
  Louis Niffoi, Oualid Jouini, Marija Jankovic, Pierre-François Ceccaldi, Guillaume Lamé
• A Generic Framework for Organizational Digital Twins in Healthcare: Application to an Emergency Department
  Marius Huguet, Vincent Augusto
• A discrete-event simulation model to improve the appointment process and the patient flow of an MRI department
  Marie Petit, Erik Demeulemeester

FA-02: Surgery scheduling 2
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R8
Chair(s): Davide Duma

• Simulating the impact of errors on length-of-stay predictions and rescheduling policies on elective surgery planning
  Martina Doneda, Pieter Smet, Ettore Lanzarone, Giuliana Carello
• A kernel based approach for the estimate-then-optimize surgery scheduling problem
  Ricardo Otero, Erik Demeulemeester
• Scheduling surgery requests from outdoctors and indoctors under uncertainty
  Serhat Gül, ARSHAM ATASHI KHOEI, Melih Celik
• Shaping Outpatient Surgery Schedules: A Dual-Horizon Approach with Distributional Clustering
  Davide Duma, Alice Salacrist

FA-03: Elderly care
Stream: Sessions
Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R9
Chair(s): Geert-Jan Kommer

• Care pathway optimisation using Markov chain modelling
  Maik Overmars, Richard Boucherie
• Improving access to long-term care
  René Bekker
• Choosing pathways through hospital care for older persons
  Yvonne Li, Ilze Ziedins, Michael O'Sullivan, Cameron Walker
• Modelling (change in) health status and health care utilization in the 60+ population
  Geert-Jan Kommer