PhD/MS students




Graduate students supported by the center engage in various projects that are of interest to our health systems leaders. Selected projects include reducing medication errors, optimal care delivery, and health information technology. Working closely with our industrial leaders, the students map out process flows, perform time-motion studies, design systems models, perform experiments, validation, and sensitivity analysis, and implement decision support systems to provide recommendations and solution strategies to reach the objectives of the projects.



Research experience for undergraduate/master students


Hands-on research experience in healthcare can help students appreciate the complexity of problems arising from healthcare and medicine domain and gain experience through collaborative investigation. It can prepare them for future career in healthcare domain. Each year, joint with the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Healthcare, CHOT sponsors several projects that involves students in ongoing healthcare research projects.


2011 participants
Undergraduate/master students


  • Strategies to Improve Timeliness of Care and Efficiency in Critical Care Units
  • Kevin Morgan
    Matthew Hagen (PhD Student)
    Peng Tang (PhD Student)

  • Pediatric Cardiac Care: Analysis of Process and Practice Variance
  • Phillip Choi
    Rapheepong (Karan) Ghai
    Yang "Anna" Yang (PhD student)
    Kevin Yee (MS student)
    Ruilin Zhou (PhD Student)

  • Systems Analysis of OR Operations
  • Brandon McClure
    Ruichen "Ray" Sun
    Jueru "Stella" Wang
    Huanan "Robert" Zhang
    Daniel Grant (MS student)

  • Reduction of Medication Errors in Pharmacies
  • Dami Aladesanmi (HS student)
    Daniel Grant (MS student)
    Brandon McClure
    Ruichen "Ray" Sun
    Jueru "Stella" Wang
    Ten-Nien "Sam" Wu
    Huanan "Robert" Zhang



    2010 participants
    Undergraduate/master students


  • Modeling and Optimizing ED Workflow
  • Colby Allen
    Saloua Lahlou (MS Student)
    Doug Meagh
    Jeff Phillips
    Amanda Widmaier (MS Student)

  • Analyzing Medicaid Services and Patient Flow
  • Travis Baer
    Alana Clooten (MS Student)
    Morgan Doty
    Rikhav Parikh
    Brad Strickland

  • Dynamic OR scheduling and Service Prediction
  • Rohit Kohli
    Sai Chirala
    Tong Wu
    Brian King

  • Evaluating and Building a Decision Support System for Trauma Care
  • David Capizzani
    Brett Labrecque (MS Student)
    Meghan Martinez
    Mel Restori
    Frank Sharpe

  • Analyzing Care Characteristics and predicting Patients Readmission in a Pediatric Hospital
  • Matthew Walker
    Ava Madigan
    Fan Yuan (PhD student)
    Miguel Pajares

  • Reducing medication errors: Pharmacy
  • Katie Baronowski
    Lauren Calvert (MS student)
    Tejas Mallajosyula
    Paul McCrory
    Katie Millspaugh



    2009 participants
    Undergraduate/master students


  • Reducing Medication Errors
  • Acelyn Barlaan
    Stephanie Boylan
    Niquelle Brown
    Sudhan Chinnappan (MS student)
    Deniz Cinalioglu (PhD student)
    Travis Hotchkiss
    Kathleen Schneck

  • Optimal Care Delivery
  • Randy Darnowsky
    Jeffrey Gibbs
    Wonki Kim (PhD student)
    Denis Masse (MS student)
    Munir Pathak

  • Emergency Evacuation
  • David Gass (MS student)
    Ashwin Raghunathan (MS student)
    Hyo Jung Kang (MS student)
    Karan Uppal (PhD student)
    Anna Yang (PhD student)

  • Optimal Meal Design
  • Devika Dhir
    Lakshmi Ganesan (MS student)
    Khaled Jafar
    Wei Lin (MS student)
    Cody Stanley

  • Remote Patient Monitoring
  • Shayna Brownstein
    Nikhil Bumb (MS student)
    Anita Gajjala (MS student)
    Lesley-Anne Harris
    Janae Holmes

  • Alert Management
  • Gianender Khanna
    Amanda Mejia (PhD student)
    Matt Sheffield
    Prashastha Vaidyula
    Muhammad Yadudu

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