KOÇ UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS WORKSHOP, CAS Z48, JULY 04 2015
Session	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Discussant
9:00-9:30	Welcome + Coffee
9:30-11:00 Hospital Operations 1	Carri Chan	Columbia University	Critical care in hospitals: When to introduce a Step Down Unit?	Rhonda Righter, University of California Berkeley
	Vidyadhar Kulkarni	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Stochastic Models of Appointment Systems
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Hospital Operations 2	Jim Dai	Cornell University	Models and algorithms for managing hospital inpatient discharge timing and overflow	Enis Kayış, Özyeğin University
12:30-14:00	Lunch at cafeteria
14:00-15:30 Organ Transplants	Barış Ata	University of Chicago	Overcoming geographical disparities in access to deceased donor kidneys in the United States	Pınar Keskinocak, Georgia Institute of Technology
	Burhaneddin Sandıkçı	University of Chicago	The significance of waiting list information in organ transplant decisions
Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Models for Public Health and Emergency Medical Services	Sarang Deo	Indian School of Business	Engaging private practitioners to improve TB diagnosis and treatment in urban India: Models and Analysis	Tolga Tezcan, London Business School
	Shane Henderson	Cornell University	Emergency Medical Service Logistics