Mission and Bylaws
The mission of the POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management is to improve the ability of health care systems around the globe to deliver high quality care efficiently and effectively by encouraging operations management research, training and dialog among key health care stakeholders, including researchers, health care providers, decision-makers, policy-makers, and patients.
Past Events
2021 Healthcare Operations Management Mini Conference
This mini-conference connects healthcare researchers and practitioners to actively discuss how our thinking about health policy and healthcare operations has evolved during the pandemic. This helps all of us develop innovative, practical and sustainable solutions that improve the operations of healthcare organizations. This conference provides a venue for discussion between those working and researching healthcare delivery issues to share what works, what doesn't and why, and which areas need greater attention. The conference is meant to complement the POMS annual meeting (April 30 - May 5, 2021) as it gives participants a chance to learn from both practitioners and researchers, and allows time for brainstorming new approaches and research ideas for improving the effectiveness of healthcare delivery systems.
2020 Synapse Mini-Conference, April 23, 2020
This mini-conference connects healthcare researchers and practitioners to actively discuss relevant challenges in healthcare operations that involve value-based healthcare. This helps all of us develop innovative, practical and sustainable solutions that improve the operations of healthcare organizations. This conference provides a venue for discussion between those working and researching healthcare delivery issues to share what works, what doesn't and why, and which areas need greater attention. The conference is meant to complement the POMS annual meeting (April 24-27, 2020) as it gives participants a chance to learn from both practitioners and researchers, and allows time for brainstorming new approaches and research ideas for improving the effectiveness of healthcare delivery systems.
Awards & Competitions
2021 Healthcare Best Paper Competition
The College of Healthcare Operations Management of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) announces its 2021 Best Paper Competition. This competition is held each year to honor outstanding papers in the field of Healthcare Operations Management. Each submitted paper will be judged based on its contribution towards the advancement of theory and practice of Healthcare Operations Management.
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2020 Healthcare Best Paper Competition
Congratulations to all finalists and winners of the Healthcare Best Paper Competition 2019/2020 arranged by the College of Healthcare Operations Management (CHOM). It was our hope, of course, that the annual conference would be held as intended, and therefore also the session wherein the finalists could present their papers, but when reality strikes we have to make other plans. This less than spectacular fashion in conveying the results should not in any way diminish the contributions by the authors and the glory that accompanies their hard-won achievements. The authors of the winning paper will receive an award of $500, while the authors of the runner-up paper will receive an award of $250. All finalists will receive an certificate.
This year's competition saw a large increase in submitted papers - from 22 in 2018/2019 to 38 in 2019/2020. With each paper read by 5 or 6 individuals, who each reviewed and scored 5 papers, a total of 54 volunteer referees were recruited for two rounds of blind reviews. The scoring and ranking by this large set of reviewers were used to determine the finalists, with the selection process and the ultimate ranking of the papers independently inspected and validated by a majority of the CHOM Board. Needless to say, this was a very tough competition between many fine papers. Thank you to all who submitted work and a massive applause to all reviewers (listed below) - together you made this competition possible!
2021 Award Recipient: Mohamad Soltani, Robert J. Batt, Hessam Bavafa, and Brian W. Patterson, "Does What Happens in the ED Stay in the ED? The Effects of Emergency Department Physician Workload on Post-ED Care Use."
Runner-up: Jing Dong, Pengyi Shi, Fanyin Zheng, and Xin Jin, "Off-service Placement in Inpatient Ward Network: Resource Pooling versus Service Slowdown."
Honorable Mention: Vishal Ahuja, Carlos Alvarez, and Bradley Staats, "How Continuity in Service Impacts Process Variability: Evidence from a Primary Care Setting."
Honorable Mention: Shubham Akshat, S. Raghavan, and Sommer Gentry, "Fair Liver Transplant Allocation: A Scalable Optimization Model."
Reviewers
Nilay Tanik Argon, Mazhar Arikan, Priyank Arora, Turgey Ayer, Hari Balasubramanian, Chaitanya Bandi, Hamsa Bastani, Mehmet Begen, Fernanda Bravo, Kurt Bretthauer, Ozden Engin Cakici, Aravind Chandrasekaran, Rachel Chen, Dilip Chhajed, Tinglong Dai, Yichuan Ding, Sandra Eksioglu, Seyed Emadi, Larry Fredendall, Susan Meyer, Ben Grant, Maria Ibanez, Aditya Jain, Jonas Jonasson, Diwas Kc, Song Hee Kim, Yingchao Lan, Brandon Lee, Retsef Levi, Elisa Long, Lauren Lu, Chris McDermott, Lesley Meng, Alex Mills, Ujjal Kumar Mukerjee, Zhan Pang, Sandeep Rath, Keivan Sadeghzadeh, Burhan Sandikci, Vahid Sarhangian, Nicos Savva, Claire Senot, Cong Shi, Masha Shunko, John Silberholz, Hummy Song, Zhankun Sun, Sridhar Tayur, Tolga Tezcan, Sriram Thirumalai, Vera Tilson, Anita Tucker, Greg Zaric, Gabriel Zayas-Caban
College Boards
President: David Dobrzykowski, University of Arkansas
Secretary: Pengyi Shi, Purdue University
VP Awards: Urban Wemmerlöv, University of Wisconsin
VP Meetings: Nan Liu, Boston College
VP Outreach: E. David Zepeda, Boston University
