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Program & book of abstracts for November 18

A complete program is available here. The program book including all abstracts is now available and can be downloaded from here. A final version in paper will be handed out to all participants on November 18.

You can download the presentations from the parallel sessions from here (part 1) and from here (part 2). These presentations are supplied as a .zip file. The presenations that are available include the presenter's name in the file name. Prof. Romeijn's presentation can be found here, and Björn Hårdemark his presentation can be downloaded from here.

Program

8:30-9:00

Coffee and registration

9.00-9.15

Opening and Welcome (room: Athene / M1-19)
Geert Kazemier (Erasmus University Medical Center)

9.15-10.00

Plenary (room: Athene / M1-19) – Chair: Albert Wagelmans
Edwin Romeijn (University of Michigan)
Optimization of radiation therapy treatment plans

 

10.00-10.20

Coffee break

10.20-11.20

Session 1 (room: Athene / M1-19) – Chair: Peter Vanberkel
Improving hospital performance (1)

Hans-Jűrgen Zimmermann (RWTH Aachen)
Optimal planning and control of processes in hospitals

Wineke van Lent (The Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis)
Identifying success factors for the implementation of simulation results to improve the patient flow and resource utilization in hospitals

Jan Telgen (University of Twente)
Buying individual care through procurement auctions

Session 2 (room: Lund / M1-18) – Chair: Jan Vissers
Scheduling in hospitals

Kristiaan Glorie (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Optimizing sterile net composition

Ivan Vermeulen (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
Decentralized online scheduling of combination-appointments in hospitals

Maartje Zonderland (University of Twente / Leiden University Medical Center)
Capacity planning and scheduling for semi-emergent surgeries at a neurosurgery department

11.20-12.20

Session 3 (room: Athene / M1-19) – Chair: Peer Goudswaard
Optimal ward management

Arnoud de Bruin (VU University Medical Center)
Dimensioning hospital wards using the Erlang loss model

Rene Bekker (VU University Amsterdam)
Bed reservation and merging for clinical wards

Nico van Dijk (University of Amsterdam)
On dimensioning intensive care units

Session 4 (room: Lund / M1-18) – Chair: Ellen van Vliet
Application of Operations Research models

Joris van de Klundert (Maastricht University)
Measuring clinical pathway adherence

Erwin Hans (University of Twente)
Individualized breast cancer follow-up - Cost-effectiveness analysis

Paul Joustra (Academic Medical Center)
To pool or not to pool in hospitals: a theoretical and practical comparison for a radiotherapy outpatient department

12.20-13.30

Lunch

13.30-14.30

Session 5 (room: Athene / M1-19) – Chair: Jeroen van Oostrum
Logistical models for blood supply

Rene Haijema (University of Amsterdam / Wageningen University)
TIMO: A decision support tool for efficient blood platelet production, Part I – Methodology

Nikky Kortbeek (University of Amsterdam / University of Twente)
TIMO: A decision support tool for efficient blood platelet production, Part II – Strategies for younger platelets

Rommert Dekker (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Supply chain management of pharmaceuticles

Session 6 (room: Lund / M1-18) – Chair: Arnoud de Bruin
Optimization of hospital access

Wim van Harten (University of Twente)
Improving access time of diagnostic procedures

Paulien Out (CC Zorgadviseurs / VU university)
Optimal outpatient appointment scheduling

Nico Dellaert (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Hospital admission planning to optimize major resources utilization under uncertainty

14.30-14.50

Coffee break

14.50-15.50

Session 7 (room: Athene / M1-19) – Chair: Paul Joustra
Operations Research models in Health Care

Giovanni Righini (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Models and algorithms for ambulances location and re-location

Peter Vanberkel (University of Twente)
Reallocating Resources to Focused Factories: A Case Study in Chemotherapy

Gijs Rennen (Tilburg University)
Sandwich algorithms for approximating Pareto frontiers to make trade-off decisions in IMRT

Session 8 (room: Lund / M1-18) – Chair: Naomi Nathan
Improving hospital performance (2)

Marjolein Jungman (ORTEC)
Data envelopment analysis in hospital benchmark studies

Sabrina Ramwadhdoebe (University Medical Center Utrecht)

Implementation by simulation; strategies for ultrasound screening for hip dysplasia

Steef van de Velde (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
The stent supply chain at Erasmus Medical Center

15.50-16.30

Plenary (room: Athene / M1-19) – Chair: Albert Wagelmans
Björn Hårdemark (RaySearch, Sweden)

Application of operations research in advanced software in radiotherapy

16.30-17.00

Plenary discussion NGB section OR & Health Care
(room: Athene / M1-19)
Moderator: Joris van de Klundert

17.00-18.00

Drinks

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