{"265221":{"#nid":"265221","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Lee\u2019s Project Named One of Six Finalists for the INFORMS Franz Edelman Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS\u00ae) announced the six finalist organizations that will compete for the 2014 INFORMS Franz Edelman Prize. The prestigious prize recognizes excellence in applying advanced operations research and analytics to transform business and human lives. Edelman finalist teams have improved organizational efficiency, increased profits, brought better products to consumers, helped foster peace negotiations, and saved lives. The 2014 Edelman Prize winner will be announced at the Edelman Gala on March 31 during the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/analytics2014\/\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EINFORMS Conference on Business Analytics \u0026amp; Operations Research\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Boston. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEva Lee and the Grady team worked on a project to model and optimize emergence department workflow for Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Lee was first inducted as INFORMS Franz Edelman Award Laureate in 2007 with the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and their project on \u0022Operations Research Advances Cancer Therapeutics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s six finalists are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGrady Health System, with the Georgia Institute of Technology, for \u201cModeling and Optimizing Emergency Department Workflow.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETwitter, with Stanford University, for \u201cThe \u2018Who to Follow\u2019 System at Twitter: Strategy, Algorithms, and Revenue Impact.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with Kid Risk, Inc.,for \u201cUsing Integrated Analytical Models to Support Global Health Policies to Manage Vaccine Preventable Diseases: Polio Eradication and Beyond.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe Energy Authority for \u201cHydroelectric Generation and Water Routing Optimizer.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EKidney Exchange at the Alliance for Paired Donation, with Boston College, Stanford, and MIT,for \u201cKidney Exchange.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENBN Company, with Biarri, for \u201cFiber Optic Network Optimization at NBN Co.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow in its 43rd year, the INFORMS Franz Edelman Prize competition recognizes outstanding examples of analytics and operations research projects that transform companies, entire industries and people\u2019s lives. Using innovative advanced analytical methods, the teams were instrumental in helping their respective institutions make better decisions, providing a disciplined way by which management can improve organizational performance in a wide variety of situations and across both public and private organizations.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS\u00ae) announced the six finalist organizations that will compete for the 2014 INFORMS Franz Edelman Prize. Eva\u0026nbsp;Lee and team worked on a project to model and optimize emergence department workflow for Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-01-08 16:18:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:40","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"265711":{"id":"265711","type":"image","title":"Eva K. Lee","body":null,"created":"1449244039","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:47:19","changed":"1475894953","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:13","alt":"Eva K. 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