{"635389":{"#nid":"635389","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Turgay Ayer and Interdisciplinary Team Develop COVID-19 Policy Simulator","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn late January, the first case of the novel coronavirus \u0026mdash; the virus which causes COVID-19, a highly contagious disease that originated in China \u0026mdash; was confirmed in the U.S. Due to the rapid spread of the disease in other areas of the world, many U.S.-based researchers began working to help keep Americans safe.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne such researcher was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/isye.gatech.edu\/users\/turgay-ayer\u0022\u003ETurgay Ayer\u003C\/a\u003E, George Family Foundation Early Career Professor and associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE). He has focused his career on health care analytics and has created models to help slow the spread of various infectious diseases, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/isye.gatech.edu\/news\/effectively-treating-hepatitis-c\u0022\u003EHepatitis C\u003C\/a\u003E. He also serves as the research director for health care analytics and business intelligence in the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems at Georgia Tech and holds a courtesy appointment at Emory Medical School.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with ISyE Ph.D. student Jade Yingying Xiao, Ayer partnered with a research team from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, led by Assistant Professor Jagpreet Chhatwal, and a team from Boston Medical Center, led by Associate Professor Benjamin Linas. Together this group created the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.covid19sim.org\/\u0022\u003ECOVID-19 Simulator\u003C\/a\u003E. The simulator, an interactive tool designed to inform COVID-19 intervention policy decisions in the U.S., is also available to the general public. It evaluates the impact of different social distancing interventions on the reduction in spread of coronavirus in the U.S., on both a national and state level.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have leveraged our previous expertise in epidemiological and infectious disease modeling, from a model-building perspective,\u0026rdquo; explained Ayer. \u0026ldquo;However, we could not utilize our knowledge from any other diseases in terms of the spread of this virus because it is so different. The speed at which the virus spreads from one person to another and how long an infected individual can be asymptomatic \u0026mdash; these values are unique to COVID-19. We needed to dig deeper into the literature and observed statistics to parameterize the model.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn early March, many states in the U.S. began implementing social distancing practices \u0026mdash; which included limiting social gatherings, staying six feet away from others, wearing masks in public, closing schools and businesses, teleworking, and other measures to \u0026ldquo;flatten the curve\u0026rdquo; and slow the spread of the disease. The COVID-19 simulator is designed to predict the outcomes of the various levels of social distancing to help policy makers make educated decisions when lifting the various restrictions and give individuals information to determine their own actions going forward.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Ayer, the simulator, which is updated on a weekly basis, is an SEIR compartmental model \u0026mdash; the data sorts individuals into groups in various stages of the disease: susceptible, exposed, infected, and recovered. It combines established epidemiological and infectious disease modeling with state-of-the-art statistical modeling to reflect the most recent forecasts given a variety of scenarios. Intervention levels include \u0026ldquo;minimal restrictions,\u0026rdquo; like increased handwashing and avoiding sick individuals; \u0026ldquo;stay-at-home\u0026rdquo; orders, where people are advised to stay at home unless they need to pick up groceries or other essential goods; and lockdown, the most extreme level, as exercised in other parts of the world such as China and India.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe simulator has received a great deal of attention since its April 24 launch. In the first week, the website received more than 100,000 hits, and the simulator has been featured on MSNBC\u0026rsquo;s Rachel Maddow Show, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/05\/06\/851708826\/episode-997-georgias-open-question\u0022\u003ENPR\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8265799\/Simulator-projects-Georgia-23-000-deaths.html\u0022\u003Ethe U.K.\u0026rsquo;s Daily Mail\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/massachusetts-hospital-coronavirus-simulator\u0022\u003EFox News\u003C\/a\u003E, and numerous other media outlets.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team is currently working to incorporate cell phone tracking data into the model to assess how increased mobility as businesses open will influence projections. In the future, they plan to expand the simulator globally.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe simulator, an interactive tool designed to inform COVID-19 intervention policy decisions in the U.S., is also available to the general public.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The simulator, an interactive tool designed to inform COVID-19 intervention policy decisions in the U.S., is also available to the general public."}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2020-05-14 18:31:36","changed_gmt":"2020-12-08 14:27:08","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"634176":{"id":"634176","type":"image","title":"George Family Foundation Early Career Professor and Associate Professor Turgay Ayer","body":null,"created":"1586367708","gmt_created":"2020-04-08 17:41:48","changed":"1586367708","gmt_changed":"2020-04-08 17:41:48","alt":"George Family Foundation Early Career Professor and Associate Professor Turgay Ayer","file":{"fid":"241322","name":"Turgay Ayer_square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Turgay%20Ayer_square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Turgay%20Ayer_square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":369278,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Turgay%20Ayer_square.jpg?itok=C5SfU_3w"}}},"media_ids":["634176"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"},{"id":"729","name":"pandemic"},{"id":"183843","name":"coronavirus"},{"id":"171265","name":"simulator"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laurie.haigh@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELaurie Haigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Laurie.Haigh@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"634042":{"#nid":"634042","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Create Dedicated Pandemic Clinics Now to Address COVID-19","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECOVID-19 has caught Pinar Keskinocak well prepared. For years, she has studied how societies manage pandemics, and how outbreaks\u0026nbsp;overtax\u0026nbsp;the health care system\u0026nbsp;and wrack\u0026nbsp;supply chains to\u0026nbsp;worsen\u0026nbsp;pandemics. Here she shares her insights.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmpty classrooms and supermarket shelves marked the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Keskinocak expects more signs of the times to come \u0026ndash; such as pop-up pandemic clinics and the shortage and rationing of medical supplies beyond masks and ventilators.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak is the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/pinar-keskinocak\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Edirector of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E, which studies how government and private sectors can cooperate to handle\u0026nbsp;health and humanitarian crises. And she is William W. George Chair and Professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn previous research, Keskinocak\u0026rsquo;s team created a model that accurately ran the course of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, and when COVID-19 struck, her team was already in the middle of modeling how special clinics could significantly slow a pandemic. In the meantime, temporary clinics in Wuhan, China, appear to have validated her model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHealthcare expansion now\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe surge of COVID-19 patients pushed Italy\u0026rsquo;s health care system into a very ugly\u0026nbsp;crisis, and the U.S. needs to take measures now to handle similar patient surges. Pandemics often strike in two waves or more, and the second is usually the worst, so measures need to be lasting, Keskinocak said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEven without COVID-19, the U.S. healthcare system has been under strain. Emergency rooms are often overcrowded; it takes a long time to schedule an appointment, and there is a chronic shortage of nursing staff.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinion\/ny-oped-coronavirus-capacity-gut-check-20200323-vdw2nsude5ehfkj3e3xavjhk54-story.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead Keskinocak\u0026#39;s guest op-ed in the New York Daily News: COVID clinics now\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We need to expand capacity and unleash creative flexibility in our healthcare systems. We should use more telemedicine and create self-service stations for testing. I would particularly like to see specialized COVID-19 clinics established now,\u0026rdquo; Keskinocak said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Special clinics could be separate spaces in existing facilities or standalone facilities. As COVID-19 spreads, we expect a lot more people with cold- and flu-like symptoms to seek testing and care. The healthcare capacities are just not there for a business as usual approach, and taking it could harm patients by delaying care and increasing risk of infection.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGathering COVID-19 patients in tight spaces like waiting rooms with other patients would increase the coronavirus\u0026rsquo; spread, and patients with preexisting conditions could face mortal threat. Contagion could also spread into hospitals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Dedicated pandemic clinics could implement targeted hygiene, air filtration, and specialized protective equipment beyond masks and gloves for healthcare workers. They can tailor workflows to test and care for patients quickly and effectively and keep them away from other patients and staff,\u0026rdquo; Keskinocak said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPayment needs to be easy, too, including financing the uninsured. In the middle of a public health emergency, it is vital to not get bogged down by restrictions meant for normal times.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPotentially dangerous shortages\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToilet paper will make a comeback in supermarkets, but in its place, life-saving medications could become perilously scarce. Countries need to act now to prevent this from compounding the COVID-19 crisis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Dwindling availability of hospital beds, ventilators, and personal protective equipment like masks and gloves during a patient surge \u0026ndash; those are the obvious things. But we could also see shortages of items like asthma medication or antidepressants. Worst case, even food supplies could run low,\u0026rdquo; Keskinocak said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/488296-in-coronapocalypse-the-worst-shortages-could-be-deadly\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead Keskinocak\u0026#39;s guest op-ed in The Hill: medical supply chain dangers\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026rsquo;s how shortages work and can lead to price gouging and also rationing. The latter can have good effects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Shortages are the result of supply-demand imbalance caused by either an unexpected increase in demand or unexpected decrease in supply or both. Shortages are common in crises such as natural disasters or health emergencies. But given the worldwide slowdown of economic activity in pandemics, disruptions could get much worse this time,\u0026rdquo; Keskinocak said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Supply chains are actually intricate webs of multiple parts that span the globe. Pandemics damage many of those parts, and it can take time to recover. This creates a more serious and worrisome imbalance between supply and demand.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToilet paper will return because people fear-hoard it in a panic but consume it at normal rates. When the panic runs its course, demand slows back down to the actual rate of consumption and its normal supply chain, which is relatively simple, catches up.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With medicine and healthcare services and supplies, the increase in demand is typically already in line with consumption, so a shortage in supply or increase in demand can create a supply-demand gap that continues for a long time,\u0026rdquo; Keskinocak said. \u0026ldquo;Medical supply chains are also very complex and fragile.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFuture vaccine distribution\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn normal times, most supply chains work\u0026nbsp;at a plodding pace, and when crisis strikes, it is tough to ramp them up due to expensive equipment, complex logistics, and strict regulations, particularly in health care.\u0026nbsp;Even temporary shortages of medicines and medical devices can have consequences for patients who need them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If shortages become serious, rationing \u0026ndash; with a priority allocation to those most in need \u0026ndash; can help balance demand and supply for critical items like medications.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce created and approved, the production of vaccines or antivirals for COVID-19 will\u0026nbsp;ramp up slowly and could be in short supply at first. Decision-makers need plan investments now in the supply chains necessary for their effective distribution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis will include painful, necessary decisions like prioritizing first doses for healthcare workers, people with pre-existing conditions, and the elderly. The current system of restocking vaccines in the U.S. after initial distribution \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/616037\/flu-vaccine-supply-gaps-can-intensify-flu-seasons-make-pandemics-deadlier\u0022\u003Ealso has serious gaps that need fixing\u003C\/a\u003E to save many more lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the meantime, social distancing is one of the best ways to protect everyone and reduce the patient surge into clinics. Do it if you or anyone in your household has any cold-like symptoms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/blog\/get-schooled\/georgia-tech-professor-explains-how-social-distancing-slows-spread-covid\/uqoFTDBn2btbfh7T18MwmJ\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead Keskinocak\u0026#39;s commentary on social distancing on\u0026nbsp;AJC.com\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlso read:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/616037\/flu-vaccine-supply-gaps-can-intensify-flu-seasons-make-pandemics-deadlier\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVaccine Supply Gaps Can\u0026nbsp;Make Pandemics Deadlier\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia contacts: \u003C\/strong\u003EBen Brumfield (ben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu) and John Toon (john.toon@comm.gatech.edu)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAccording to ISyE Professor Pinar Keskinocak, COVID-19 needs pandemic clinics focused on treating it and keeping it away from non-COVID patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"COVID-19 needs pandemic clinics focused on treating it and keeping it away from non-COVID patients."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-04-03 15:15:12","changed_gmt":"2020-12-08 14:26:50","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"632533":{"id":"632533","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinocak, William W. 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It\u0026rsquo;s a viral infection spread through infected blood that causes inflammation and seriously damages the liver as it progresses, eventually leading to liver failure and death. But hepatitis C is curable; a Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) oral medication can stop the virus in just 12 weeks. However, the cost of treatment is extremely high at $1,000 per pill per day, an economic barrier for most people.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the U.S., hepatitis C is most concentrated in the criminal justice system. Today, 17 percent of prison inmates are suffering from hepatitis C; the prevalence of the disease is nearly 10 times higher in prisons compared with the general community. Unfortunately, correctional facilities have very tight budgets and cannot bear the cost burden of hepatitis C treatment. Currently, on average, only about one to two percent of the infected inmates have access to treatment medication. When left untreated, released inmates are likely to spread hepatitis C to others in the community. It\u0026rsquo;s critical for treatment options to be studied in prison populations to not only help inmates, but benefit society at large both in terms of healthcare quality and cost-savings. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe World Health Organization (WHO) is working toward eliminating hepatitis C altogether by 2030, so the focus on the prison populations is a crucial starting point. Recent research by Turgay Ayer, George Family Foundation assistant professor at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and his colleagues has shown that screen and treatment programs in prisons could significantly reduce the disease burden. Ayer is dedicated to his work to defeat Hepatitis C, focusing his grant monies on developing decision support tools for practical use in order for prison healthcare workers to make optimal hepatitis C treatment decisions for inmates.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Because of cost constraints, prisons cannot afford to treat every inmate with hepatitis C, so prioritization decisions have to be made,\u0026rdquo; said Ayer. \u0026ldquo;My research is dedicated to enabling decision-makers in prison systems to make the best choice possible to treat the most people with the given budget they have.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECreated with systems modeling methodologies, Ayer\u0026rsquo;s Decision Support Tool helps healthcare providers decide who to treat first. Ayer\u0026rsquo;s tool takes into account a number of factors, including disease progression, injection drug use (IDU) status, and prison sentence length. Contrary to how a normal disease treatment decision might be made, in this case, just because someone is at a more advanced stage of the disease does not necessarily indicate they should be treated first.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Ninety-five percent of inmates are released in less than five years,\u0026rdquo; said Ayer. \u0026ldquo;While mostly it makes sense to prioritize sickest patients with longest length of sentences, in certain cases, prioritizing IDU patients with shorter length of sentences may help more effectively reduce future infections and save on costly liver transplants or cancer treatments down the road. It\u0026rsquo;s known as treatment as prevention.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe decision-making framework that Ayer has developed helps to standardize treatment in prisons. He gives an example involving two patients: Patient A is non-IDU patient in an advanced fibrosis (liver scarring) stage of the disease, and has a five year sentence. Patient B is an IDU patient in a medium fibrosis stage of the disease, and has one year sentence. How do you decide who to treat? That\u0026rsquo;s where Ayer\u0026rsquo;s Decision Support Tool comes in. The tool captures probabilistic disease progression, treatment effect and capacity constraints to indicate which of these patients should be prioritized. Treatment capacity based on budget ends up dictating who gets treated. A tight budget may indicate that patient A gets treated, while a larger budget may indicate to treat patient B. \u0026nbsp;Given that significant variation exists with respect to treatment capacity and practices across different national state prison systems, Ayer\u0026rsquo;s tool could be instrumental in standardizing practices and improving outcomes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The United States is in the midst of a hepatitis C virus epidemic, and our data-driven model and Decision Support Tool can help to manage the disease burden in a cost-effective way,\u0026rdquo; said Ayer. \u0026ldquo;If WHO\u0026rsquo;s aim is to eliminate an infectious disease that is 10 times more prevalent in prisons, you can\u0026rsquo;t ignore that population. 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Samantha is currently pursuing a B.S. in Industrial Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She plans on obtaining a Master\u0027s in Health Systems and pursuing a career in the healthcare industry with a focus on operations research and improving the healthcare industry using principles of industrial engineering. This scholarship is funded by SHS members who make tax-deductible donations to this fund every year to facilitate the education of deserving student who would like to achieve higher education focused on systems engineering in healthcare.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Making an impact today - and tomorrow"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESamantha Russell has been selected as the 2011 Society for Health System $1000 undergraduate scholarship recipient.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Samantha Russell has been selected as the 2011 Society for Health System $1000 undergraduate scholarship recipient"}],"uid":"27376","created_gmt":"2011-06-30 11:26:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:40","author":"Paul Diederich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iienet2.org\/SHS\/Details.aspx?id=22490","title":"SHS Donation Site"}],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7862","name":"Health Systems Institute (HSI)"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dcowan@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDavid Cowan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["dcowan@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"68707":{"#nid":"68707","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Julie Swann, faculty member affiliated with HSI, has been named the Nash Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJulie Swann has been named the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor, effective July 1, 2011.\u0026nbsp; The Nash professorship was created through an endowment established by H. 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Mello Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPinar Keskinocak has been named the Joseph C. Mello Professor, effective July 1, 2011. The Joseph C. Mello Professorship was created through an endowment established by Mello (B IE 1980) to support the work of an outstanding Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) faculty member whose work focuses on health care delivery operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the full story \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/release.php?nid=66535\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Pinar Keskinocak has been named the Joseph C. Mello Professor, effective July 1, 2011."}],"uid":"27376","created_gmt":"2011-06-21 09:34:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:37","author":"Paul Diederich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-06-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-06-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/release.php?nid=66535","title":"Original Story"}],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7862","name":"Health Systems Institute (HSI)"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELalita Kaligotla\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lalita@hsi.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"63359":{"#nid":"63359","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Work being done at the Healthcare Robotics Laboratory was cited in the Scientific American Magazine","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientific American - January 4, 2011\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat does 2011 hold for the field of robotics? Plenty, if 2010 is any indication. This will not be the year that mobile, artificially intelligent robot nurses assume the responsibility of caring for the world\u0027s growing elderly population, but it does promise to be a pivotal time for the development of the underlying technology that will enable safe and reliable automated eldercare, not to mention other services that robots are expected to perform in the coming decade. . . . \u0022There are a lot of innovations in the PR2, but the most significant thing from my perspective is that it is a standardized, well-designed, well-tested platform that has a whole bunch of software that works right out of the box,\u0022 says Charles Kemp, an assistant biomedical engineering professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0022You never had that situation before.\u0022 Kemp and his team at Georgia Tech\u0027s Healthcare Robotics Lab, which he formed in 2007, are focused on creating robots that can safely and effectively help care for senior citizens.\u0026nbsp; . . .Kemp\u0027s lab is one of 16 institutions that experimented with the PR2 during the latter half of 2010.\u0026nbsp; . . .Kemp sees the combination of his PR2, named Gatsby, and a free and open-source robot operating system as a way to accelerate his lab\u0027s work with the help of a standardized platform and a budding community of roboticists working with the same tools who can now offer more practical advice to one another. \u0022We\u0027re actually releasing things that other people can use, and we\u0027re using other people\u0027s things,\u0022 Kemp says.\u003Cbr \/\u003ELink to Full Article:\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=personal-robot-research\u0026amp;\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=personal-robot-research\u0026amp;\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=personal-robot-research\u0026amp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"2011: The Year of the Personal Robot?"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27324","created_gmt":"2011-01-04 13:52:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:57","author":"Lalita Kaligotla","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"550","name":"health systems"},{"id":"2155","name":"healthcare robotics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELalita Kaligotla\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lalita@hsi.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"62684":{"#nid":"62684","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robot Cody, Provides a Bed Bath","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECody,\na robot with compliant arms and a specialized \u0022bath mitt\u0022 end\neffector developed by the Healthcare Robotics Laboratory (PI: Charlie \nKemp) has\ndemonstrated capabilities that could be used for automated bed baths. \nThis\ncould potentially be useful for individuals unable to perform functions \nof\npersonal hygiene for themselves. \u0026nbsp;A human operator can direct Cody to\nareas of skin that need to be cleaner. Cody uses a camera and a laser \nrange\nfinder to gather data, and then autonomously performs the cleaning \nfunction.\nThe Robot has also been programmed for safety precautions, such as \njoints that\nare made with low stiffness to soften potential accidental impact, \ncontrol\nmethods that exert adequate pressure (well below the threshold to cause\ndamage), and finally a \u0022stop\u0022 button to shut off movement. \u0026nbsp;This\nwork was reported at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on \nIntelligent\nRobots (IROS) held in Taipei, Taiwan last month, and is a step forward \nin the\nuse of robots in the healthcare arena.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\nLinks to Media Coverage:\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/editors\/25998\/?ref=rss\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/editors\/25998\/?ref=rss\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/editors\/25998\/?ref=rss\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-11\/robot-bathes-human-just-right-amount-force\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-11\/robot-bathes-human-just-right-amount-force\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-11\/robot-bathes-human-just...\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.medgadget.com\/archives\/2010\/11\/a_robotic_car_wash_for_bedridden_patients.html\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.medgadget.com\/archives\/2010\/11\/a_robotic_car_wash_for_bedridden_patients.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.medgadget.com\/archives\/2010\/11\/a_robotic_car_wash_for_bedridd...\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/spong-bath-assistant-robot\/16894\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/spong-bath-assistant-robot\/16894\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/spong-bath-assistant-robot\/16894\/\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-20022305-1.html\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-20022305-1.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-20022305-1.html\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hizook.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/georgia-techs-cody-robot-performs-autonomous-bed-baths-patient-hygiene\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.hizook.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/georgia-techs-cody-robot-performs-autonomous-bed-baths-patient-hygiene\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.hizook.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/georgia-techs-cody-robot-performs-...\u003C\/a\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27324","created_gmt":"2010-11-11 10:53:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:46","author":"Lalita Kaligotla","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-11-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2155","name":"healthcare robotics"},{"id":"11230","name":"Human Robot Interaction"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELalita Kaligotla\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lalita@hsi.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"62212":{"#nid":"62212","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robots to be the Next Service Provider?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday October 15th, Prof. Kemp and graduate student Travis Deyle from the Healthcare Robotics Laboratory made a live appearance on Ali Velshi\u0027s show \u201cThe Big I\u201d on CNN. They demonstrated their research on RFID-guided robots. A multi-disciplinary Georgia Tech team, led by Prof. Kemp, is using GATSBII (a PR2 robot from Willow Garage) to research how robots might one day assist older adults at home. Prof. Kemp described how robots like the PR2 might deliver the right medicine, at the right time, to the right person and thereby help older adults with their medicine. GATSBII used RFID to deliver a medicine bottle to Ali Velshi during the live demo.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/tech\/2010\/10\/15\/velshi.robots.future.cnn?iref=allsearch\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESee video on CNN.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Interview with CNN"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearch from the Healthcare Robotics Lab featured on CNN.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Research from the Healthcare Robotics Lab featured on CNN"}],"uid":"27376","created_gmt":"2010-10-18 10:53:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:38","author":"Paul Diederich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2158","name":"Center for Healthcare Robotics"},{"id":"2494","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lalita@hsi.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELalita Kaligotla\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lalita@hsi.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"60637":{"#nid":"60637","#data":{"type":"news","title":"HRL Receives Award to Develop Assistive Robotics for Older Adults","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKemp will be placing the PR2 in the \u0022Aware Home\u0022 to study how robots can help with homecare and creative assistive capabilities for older adults. Their research includes developing easier ways for adults to interact with robots, and enabling robots to interact with everyday objects like drawers, lamps, and light switches. The Sponsor of the PR2 Competition was Willow Garage, a company that develops hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. The awards were announced at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) held in Anchorage, Alaska from May 3rd \u2013 8th. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOther Investigators on this proposal include, Profs. 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The NHIN Challenge asked teams to create innovative stylesheets to display the information in a Continuity of Care Document (CCD) to a primary care physician taking calls from patients after office hours. The idea is to develop a CCD visualization tool that facilitates an efficient and effective phone consultation between the on-call doctor and an unfamiliar patient. Not only did the solutions have to interpret and display data error-free; they also had to facilitate the most efficient use of the physician\u2019s time. The Flatliners, competing against professionals in the Health IT field, came up with the following solutions \u2013 a problem-based approach, a multi-context approach and a rapid-access approach: \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 Problem Oriented Approach (winner): arranged the clinical data by problem so that the physician could hone in on relevant information to the particular problem the patient is presenting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Multi-Context Approach (second place): provided a highly flexible visual display that allows the physician to arrange information according to his or her particular \u0022mental model\u0022 for handling a particular problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Rapid Access Approach (third place): provided quick and easy direct navigation among all of the clinical areas in which data is stored in the CCD.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of students from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, calling themselves the Georgia Tech Flatliners, recently participated in, and took the first three prizes, at the National Health Information Network (NHIN) Code-a-thon Challenge held at Florida International University (FIU).\u0026nbsp; The Flatliners were enrolled in the Health Informatics class taught by HSI Associate Director, Mark Braunstein, MD, also a Professor of the Practice, in the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27376","created_gmt":"2010-08-26 13:59:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:11","author":"Paul Diederich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"60632":{"id":"60632","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Flatliners","body":null,"created":"1449176281","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:01","changed":"1475894520","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:00","alt":"Georgia Tech Flatliners","file":{"fid":"191177","name":"NHIN_Challenge.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NHIN_Challenge_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NHIN_Challenge_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":76037,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/NHIN_Challenge_0.png?itok=z1Px27K1"}}},"media_ids":["60632"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/release.html?nid=55581","title":"Georgia Tech Students Sweep Health IT Coding Challenge"},{"url":"http:\/\/hit.fiu.edu\/challenge.htm","title":"Code-a-Thon Challenge"},{"url":"http:\/\/albums.phanfare.com\/isolated\/btHbwEHy\/1\/4656319#imageID=98661806","title":"Photo Album"}],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"9259","name":"coding"},{"id":"2679","name":"it"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPaul Diederich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"60636":{"#nid":"60636","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robot Masters the Art of Opening Doors and Drawers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Charlie Kemp and Advait Jain at Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/hrl\/index.shtml\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHealthcare Robotics Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E have programmed a robot to autonomously approach and open doors and drawers. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt does that using omni-directional wheels and compliant arms, and the only information it needs is the location and orientation of the handles. The researchers discussed their results at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, held May 3rd \u2013 8th in Anchorage, Alaska, where they presented a paper, \u0022Pulling Open Doors and Drawers: Coordinating an Omni-Directional Base and a Compliant Arm with Equilibrium Point Control.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Charlie Kemp and Advait Jain at Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022..\/..\/hrl\/index.shtml\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHealthcare Robotics \nLaboratory\u003C\/a\u003E have programmed a robot to autonomously approach and open doors \nand drawers.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Charlie Kemp and Advait Jain at Georgia Tech\u0027s Healthcare Robotics Laboratory have programmed a robot to autonomously approach and open doors and drawers."}],"uid":"27376","created_gmt":"2010-08-26 15:35:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:47","author":"Paul Diederich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/medical-robots\/050610-georgia-tech-robot-masters-art-of-opening-doors-and-drawers","title":"Georgia Tech Robot Masters the Art of Opening Doors and Drawers"}],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2157","name":"Charlie Kemp"},{"id":"10485","name":"CHR"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELalita Kaligotla\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lalita.kaligotla@hsi.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"54745":{"#nid":"54745","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Northrop Grumman, Georgia Tech  Support Global Public Health Mission","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENorthrop Grumman Corporation today announced the formation of a University Global Alliance Program (UGAP) to unite higher education and the private sector for the purpose of accelerating the application of thought leadership to global public health informatics, policy development, strategic planning, programmatic implementation, and evaluation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFive premier organizations \u2014 Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, The Satcher Leadership Institute of Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia State University, and the Colorado School of Public Health \u2014 comprise the initial alliance membership. The universities were chosen for their innovative research in public health and their strong interest in advancing public health practice through applied technology and informatics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessors Ozlem Ergun, Pinar Keskinocak, and Julie Swann, co-directors of the Health and Humanitarian Logistics Center, and Professor Dave Goldsman are part of the team that will represent the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The opportunities for health and humanitarian response in the world are vast. Constrained resources, uncertainty in demand and supply, and many other variables in these settings make quantitative analysis and mathematical modeling excellent tools for decision support,\u0022 said Swann. \u0022We are excited to work with the University Global Alliance Program as we continue to expand our role in research, education, and multi-organizational collaboration in the vast field of health care.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMembers of the UGAP will participate in Northrop Grumman contract work, coordinate research projects, share information and best practices, develop curricula, author joint case studies\/white papers, and benefit from learning opportunities within the public health community.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EErgun, Keskinocak, and Swann have worked on a variety of projects including disease modeling and intervention strategies, modeling and optimizing hospital\/clinic operations, healthcare policies, allocation of scarce resources for improved health outcomes and emergency response.  They have also developed and adapted methodologies for solving complex problems in health and humanitarian logistics including forecasting, mitigation strategies, inventory planning, and decentralized decision making while they mentor graduate students and develop cross-discipline research collaborations for maximum impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn March 4\u20135, 2010, the Georgia Tech team is hosting the annual Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference. The main objectives of the conference are to articulate the opportunities and challenges in humanitarian response and world health, both from a humanitarian and a corporate\/economic perspective; to identify important research issues; to create academic awareness for the research opportunities; and to establish priorities for NGOs, corporations, and the government in terms of their strategies, policies, and investments. Please visit the conference website (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/humlog2010\/\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/humlog2010\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/humlog2010\u003C\/a\u003E\/) for full details and to access the proceedings from last year\u0027s event.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Northrop Grumman has been in the health information technology domain for more than 20 years, and this is an exciting time in our nation\u0027s history for advancements in this field,\u0022 said Amy King, Northrop Grumman\u0027s vice president of health information technology programs. \u0022A critical component of applying best-of-breed techniques includes the need to access leaders in such areas as informing health economics, measuring effectiveness of public health interventions, and monitoring and evaluating programs for the sustainment of public health operations in developing areas. The availability of experts in the application of these techniques resides in both academic institutions and private industry.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENorthrop Grumman\u0027s UGAP interlocks private industry and academic capabilities to address the scarcity of public health informatics resources globally and find solutions to solve global and domestic public health problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The solutions to certain types of public health problems can be more rapidly discovered and better implemented when varied resources are brought together in a collaborative fashion,\u0022 said Nancy Nelson, director of public health for Northrop Grumman\u0027s Information Systems sector. \u0022The UGAP supports the mission of public health practice by bridging the gap between academic and industry capabilities and translating academic thinking into tangible technology solutions that address public health information management challenges.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe partnership program utilizes Northrop Grumman\u0027s Public Health Research and Demonstration Center in Atlanta, a state-of-the-art public health technology research and development facility. Through the lab, Northrop Grumman develops technology to support strategic public health initiatives, including disease surveillance such as H1N1, health data analysis and visualization, modeling and simulation of disease and climate effects, and collaboration across the global health community.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUGAP will provide students with practical experience to better prepare public health graduates entering the workforce, as well as strengthen the talent pool for public health informatics. Northrop Grumman employees will gain continuing education opportunities through the member institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENorthrop Grumman is a trusted integrator of advanced health solutions, including health and benefits systems management and information security. The company\u0027s services span the public health, healthcare delivery, and life sciences domains and include cutting-edge information exchange for electronic health records, Web-enabled workflow processing and large-scale information management.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENorthrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding, and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENorthrop Grumman Corporation today announced the formation of a \nUniversity Global Alliance Program (UGAP) to unite higher education and  the private sector for the purpose of accelerating the application of thought leadership to global public health informatics, policy \ndevelopment, strategic planning, programmatic implementation, and \nevaluation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Northrop Grumman, Georgia Tech Support Global Public Health Miss"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-03-03 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:38","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-03-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50819":{"id":"50819","type":"image","title":"Julie Swann (left), Ozlem Ergun (center) and Pinar Keskinocak (right), co-directors at the Center of Focused Research on Health and Humanitarian Logistics, and professors in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering","body":null,"created":"1449175437","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:57","changed":"1475894473","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:13","alt":"Julie Swann (left), Ozlem Ergun (center) and Pinar Keskinocak (right), co-directors at the Center of Focused Research on Health and Humanitarian Logistics, and professors in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering","file":{"fid":"146017","name":"H_R_teamTHUMB.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/H_R_teamTHUMB_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/H_R_teamTHUMB_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":37189,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/H_R_teamTHUMB_0.jpg?itok=6eqR7kzZ"}},"54736":{"id":"54736","type":"image","title":"Dave Goldsman, ISyE Professor","body":null,"created":"1449175474","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:34","changed":"1475894481","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:21"}},"media_ids":["50819","54736"],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8042","name":"Ergun"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1130","name":"keskinocak"},{"id":"8886","name":"Northrop Grumman"},{"id":"167213","name":"swann"},{"id":"8883","name":"UGAP"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mail\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"50811":{"#nid":"50811","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Op Ed Focuses on Humanitarian Logistics Challenges","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe earthquake in Haiti, tsunami in Indonesia, and Hurricane Katrina are all events that inspire us to help.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a rush of support, we make donations and expect quick results. With frustration, however, we see that there is a gap between the event and when supplies actually reach people in need. Why? In the case of Haiti, the infrastructure was completely destroyed. The main port and airport were not operational for the first 48 hours, making it impossible for aid to enter the country. Once the airport\u0027s runway was operational, there was chaos prioritizing which planes should land. Even after aid was on land, debris blocked roads with no available equipment to clear them. This is the conundrum that\u0027s plaguing relief workers and frustrating and confusing those donating money for recovery.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo read more, click link below.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/opinion\/logistics-ignored-in-disaster-289549.html \u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ajc.com\/opinion\/logistics-ignored-in-disaster-289549.html \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn response to the challenges in humanitarian logistics as related to the earthquake in Haiti, professors Julie Swann, Ozlem Ergun amd Pinar Pinar Keskinocak submitted an Op Ed that was published in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution on February 3, 2010.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Op Ed Focuses on Humanitarian Logistics Challenges"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-02-03 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:16","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50819":{"id":"50819","type":"image","title":"Julie Swann (left), Ozlem Ergun (center) and Pinar Keskinocak (right), co-directors at the Center of Focused Research on Health and Humanitarian Logistics, and professors in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering","body":null,"created":"1449175437","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:57","changed":"1475894473","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:13","alt":"Julie Swann (left), Ozlem Ergun (center) and Pinar Keskinocak (right), co-directors at the Center of Focused Research on Health and Humanitarian Logistics, and professors in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering","file":{"fid":"146017","name":"H_R_teamTHUMB.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/H_R_teamTHUMB_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/H_R_teamTHUMB_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":37189,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/H_R_teamTHUMB_0.jpg?itok=6eqR7kzZ"}}},"media_ids":["50819"],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1240","name":"humanitarian logistics"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1237","name":"Julie Swann"},{"id":"1238","name":"Ozlem Ergun"},{"id":"1239","name":"Pinar Keskinocak"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"49758":{"#nid":"49758","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Pinar Keskinocak Appointed HSI Associate Director for Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPinar Keskinocak, associate professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Humanitarian Logistics at the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL), has been appointed to the position of associate director for research for the Health Systems Institute (HSI).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs associate director, Professor Keskinocak will be part of the senior leadership of HSI, along with Gregory D. 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Now, in her role as associate director, she will help develop the research mission and programs, will play a significant role in shaping HSI\u0027s research agenda and will serve as the faculty coordinator for the Master\u0027s degree program in Health Systems. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECreated in 2005 as a multi-institutional and interdisciplinary initiative based at Georgia Tech and Emory University, HSI\u0027s research objective is to advance fundamental knowledge of issues central to the delivery of healthcare services through better understanding of the efficient allocation of health resources, appropriate uses of those resources, as well as the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative health care delivery systems that integrate state-of-the-art information, communication, decision support, and biomedical technologies. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHSI researchers include accomplished and practicing academicians, clinicians, post doctoral scholars, and graduate student trainees engaged in the application of quantitative and qualitative research and development methodologies to the needs of the health services and healthcare delivery sectors. Bringing together the expertise of these many disciplines, HSI enables the development and implementation of novel interdisciplinary and collaborative research, education, and outreach programs to transform healthcare delivery systems and lead the nation away from an ineffective, reactive, disease-focused system to achieve a cost-effective, pro-active, health- and wellness-focused system.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Keskinocak\u0027s research focuses on applications of operations research and management science with societal impact (particularly health and humanitarian applications), supply chain management, pricing and revenue management, and logistics\/transportation. 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The focus of the Center is to improve humanitarian logistics (including short- or long-term, man-made or natural disasters) and ultimately the human condition by system transformations through education, outreach, projects, and research \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPinar Keskinocak, associate professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Humanitarian Logistics at the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL), has been appointed to the position of associate director for research for the Health Systems Institute (HSI).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Pinar Keskinocak Appointed HSI Associate"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2009-11-09 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:04","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"49759":{"id":"49759","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinocak","body":null,"created":"1449175379","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:59","changed":"1475894453","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:53","alt":"Pinar Keskinocak","file":{"fid":"127054","name":"tes74225.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tes74225_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tes74225_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":46481,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tes74225_0.jpg?itok=RH5DVCII"}},"49760":{"id":"49760","type":"image","title":"Keskinocak, Swann and Ergum","body":null,"created":"1449175379","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:59","changed":"1475894453","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:53","alt":"Keskinocak, Swann and Ergum","file":{"fid":"127053","name":"tbf74585.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tbf74585_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tbf74585_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":37189,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tbf74585_0.jpg?itok=vtoF94rA"}}},"media_ids":["49759","49760"],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7862","name":"Health Systems Institute (HSI)"},{"id":"1240","name":"humanitarian logistics"},{"id":"1239","name":"Pinar Keskinocak"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"49761":{"#nid":"49761","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Caring for Children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe care of critically ill children has become increasingly complex for healthcare organizations to manage.  With a focus on improving patient outcomes such as length of stay, mortality, and critical incidents, a team of attending physicians and internal consultants at Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta (Children\u0027s) conducted a workflow analysis to improve the existing rounding process in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). The recommendations from this study were implemented in December 2008. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo measure the impact of these recommended changes and to further explore opportunities for improving patient care, during the summer of 2009, Dr. Atul Vats and Kristin Goin from Children\u0027s joined forces with Professor Pinar Keskinocak and Ph.D. students Monica Villarreal and Tuba Yilmaz from the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech.  The Children\u0027s\/Georgia Tech team used human factors techniques and statistical tools to collect and analyze observational data for eleven rounding events before and twelve rounding events after process re-design. They also conducted staff surveys to assess improvements in communication and care coordination, and analyzed customer satisfaction data to evaluate impact on patient experience. The study showed that the implementation of the new lean-focused, patient-centric rounding structure led to increased timeliness and efficiency of rounds, improved staff and customer satisfaction, improved throughput, and reduced attending physician man-hours. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe results of the study will be presented at the 2010 Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Congress on January 9-13, 2010 in Miami, Florida. The abstract summarizing the findings of the study received one of the ten 2010 Annual Scientific Awards from SCCM, out of the 1,240 abstracts submitted to the congress. The abstract will be published in the supplement of the Critical Care Medicine Journal in December 2009. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe focus areas of the Children\u0027s\/Georgia Tech team\u0027s ongoing collaboration include physician workflow issues, scheduling and patient handoff efficiencies, and inter-unit patient flow.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Children\u0027s Georgia Tech team used human factors techniques and statistical tools to collect and analyze observational data for process re-design. They also conducted staff surveys to assess improvements in communication and care coordination, and analyzed customer satisfaction data to evaluate impact on patient experience. The study showed that the implementation of the new lean-focused, patient-centric rounding structure lead to increased timeliness and efficiency of rounds, improved staff and customer satisfaction, improved throughput, and reduced attending physician man-hours.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Caring for Children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-11-02 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:59","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9720","name":"Children\u0027s"},{"id":"9721","name":"Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"1129","name":"healthcare"},{"id":"1431","name":"industrial and systems engineering"},{"id":"7868","name":"intensive care"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"7867","name":"pediatric care"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"59349":{"#nid":"59349","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Keskinocak Named Nash Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPinar Keskinocak, co-director in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/research\/humanitarian\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Health and Humanitarian Logistics\u003C\/a\u003E, associate director of research in the Health Systems Institute, and professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been named the Harold R.and Mary Anne Nash Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering, effective July 1, 2010.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Nash professorship was created through a faculty endowment established by H. RonaldNash (IE 1970), Deborah Nash Harris (IE 1978) and Michael R. Nash (IE 1974), the children of Mary Anne and Harold R. Nash (EE 1952), in honor of their parents. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cOur parents were smart, disciplined, and high achievers,\u201d stated the Nash siblings. \u201cIt is gratifying for us to have Dr. Keskinocak hold the professorship named after them as she carries the same outstanding attributes.\u0026nbsp; She embodies the intellectual curiosity and disciplined hard work that we saw in our parents.\u0026nbsp; Her work with her team to break new ground in humanitarian logistics is impressive and something that we are gratified to support.\u0026nbsp; We expect great things in the future from her as she continues to solve such huge and pressing problems in our world today.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Nash family has a longstanding and deep connection to Georgia Tech, having had three generations educated here and launched into successful careers. \u201cOur parents started this trend,\u201d the Nashes share, \u201cand it is one that we and our children have benefited from significantly. Through this professorship we honor their paving the way for the following generations. We are excited to be able to support Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Pinar Keskinocak, along with Health and Humanitarian Logistic Center co-directors \u00d6zlem Ergun and Julie Swann, have a passion for applying their industrial engineering and operations research knowledge and expertise in ways that will have a positive global impact. They have developed an astute awareness of the issues associated in areas such as health and humanitarian logistics, environmental degradation, and education.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cI am honored to be named the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor,\u201d said Professor Keskinocak.\u0026nbsp; \u201cThe opportunities to make a difference in the humanitarian response and world health sectors are vast. Through the Nash family support, I, my colleagues, and our students, will be able to expand our reach and impact by pushing the boundaries of our research and education in this field.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Professor Keskinocak\u2019s research focuses on supply chain management, with an emphasis on resource allocation, and she is actively engaged in research and applications in healthcare and humanitarian logistics. She received B.S. and M.S. degrees in industrial engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, in 1991 and 1992, and a Ph.D. in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. Before joining Georgia Tech, she was with IBM\u0027s T.J. 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HSI held the dedication, Thursday, June 12th. Don P. Giddens, Dean of the College of Engineering, the Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. Chair in Bioengineering and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Gregory D. Abowd, Distinguished Professor of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing and HSI Interim Director, hosted the event.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMel Hall is a major concept contributor for the Workforce Health Assessment Model (WHAM) developed by the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech. The project\u0027s objective is to develop a new workforce health assessment model to provide employers the ability to estimate workforce health risk and assist in the determination and selection of cost-effective strategies to reduce those health risks and the associated long-term workforce health costs. To educate employers and assist them in making optimal decisions regarding resource allocation among various workforce health risk management strategies, the project proposes to develop, in partnership with Comprehensive Health Services, Inc., a predictive model. This model will support the identification and quantification of health risks associated with the workforce and will provide the basis for a proactive analysis of the cost-effectiveness of various strategies and programs, in particular, programs designed to prevent and\/or reduce those risks.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT MEL HALL\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMr. Hall is the Chairman and CEO of Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. (CHS), the industry\u0027s trusted provider of onsite health centers and national examination programs. CHS is an organization that focuses on prevention, wellness and primary care programs. 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(CHS), a leading national workforce health management company, and the Health Systems Institute (HSI) at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA first-of-its-kind project, the Workforce Health Assessment Model (WHAM) is currently in use with select CHS clients. WHAM provides the ability to estimate various health risks in the workplace and assists in finding cost-effective strategies to reduce those risks and the burdensome long-term costs. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022By identifying the prevalence of the most expensive medical conditions faced by employees, our model enables organizations to proactively analyze the cost-effectiveness of various health programs and strategies, in particular, programs designed to prevent and\/or reduce those risks,\u0022 said Leanne Metcalfe, Ph.D., a research engineer with HSI whose thesis work formed the basis for the model. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWHAM represents an opportunity not only for employers, but researchers aiming to map out research models that analyze and anticipate various trends.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For the academic community, it provides a template of how abstract statistical research in predictive modeling meets challenges of real-life tests for its quality and performance,\u0022 said Brani Vidakovic, Professor of Bioengineering Statistics at The Wallace H. 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Covert, Ph.D., FHIMSS Scholarship for Management Systems. This annual award, supported by the HIMSS Foundation, is given to student members who have achieved academic excellence and have the potential to be future leaders in the healthcare information and management systems industry. The scholarship attracts hundreds of applicants each year and this is the second year in a row that it has been given to a Georgia Tech Health Systems student.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMs. Bennett is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow pursuing a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering with an emphasis in Logistics.  She is advised by Dr. Alan Erera in her dissertation work on home health nurse routing and scheduling problems.  Ashlea\u0027s graduate research is currently sponsored by Visiting Nurse|Hospice Atlanta (VN|HA), a large non-profit home care organization.  She is directing a project focused on congestive heart failure (CHF) patient care with VN|HA and a local hospital.  Project objectives include reducing the hospital length of stay for CHF patients, and designing mechanisms that improve coordination of CHF patient care across the continuum from hospital to home.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout HIMSS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the healthcare industry\u0027s membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. HIMSS represents 25,000 Healthcare Information and Systems Management (Management Engineers) professionals.  There are 20+  Tech Alum currently involved in various leadership roles in the organization.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout HIMSS Foundation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEstablished in 1986, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.himss.org\/foundation\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHIMSS Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E serves as the philanthropic arm of HIMSS, providing support and assistance to the industry and its members through: financial assistance, scholarships, to students in healthcare-IT related fields; providing access for students and governmental agencies to free industry data; and providing financial relief\/assistance for special need-based programs and issues. Projects that the Foundation supports include: scholarships for students in healthcare IT-related fields, and relief and assistance for need-based programs such as the Katrina Phoenix Project.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"HSI student wins prestigious award."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Health Systems Institute is proud to announce that Ashlea Bennett has been awarded the 2009 Richard P. Covert, Ph.D., FHIMSS Scholarship for Management Systems. This annual award, supported by the HIMSS Foundation, is given to student members who have achieved academic excellence and have the potential to be future leaders in the healthcare information and management systems industry.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"HSI student wins prestigious award"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2009-01-27 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:25","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59758":{"id":"59758","type":"image","title":"Ashlea Bennett","body":null,"created":"1449176227","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:07","changed":"1475894265","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:45","alt":"Ashlea Bennett","file":{"fid":"190981","name":"tco84715.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tco84715_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tco84715_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":16306,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tco84715_0.jpg?itok=D_nfalQf"}}},"media_ids":["59758"],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"398","name":"health"},{"id":"550","name":"health systems"},{"id":"1476","name":"HIMSS"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAndy Haleblian\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHealth Systems Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=ah141\u0022\u003EContact Andy Haleblian\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-0136\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["andyh@hsi.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"59759":{"#nid":"59759","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Brani Vidakovic Nominated for Prestigious Charles C. Shepard Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrani Vidakovic, Ph.D., a leading expert in wavelets, general Bayesian statistical methodology, statistical modeling and simulation of high frequency data, has been nominated--along with his co-authors--for the 2009 Charles C. Shepard Science Award for the manuscript \u0022The Effectiveness of Sealants in Managing Carious Lesions\u0022 (S.O. Griffin, E. Oong, W. Kohn, B. Vidakovic, B.F. Gooch, and CDC Dental Sealant Systematic Review Work Group: J. Bader, J. Clarkson, M.R. Fontana, D.M. Meyer, R.G. Rozier, J.A. Weintraub, and D.T. Zero) in the Assessment \u0026amp; Epidemiology category. The project was lead by Susan Griffin, researcher with the Division of Oral Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Nomination for this prestigious award recognizes not only Dr. Vidakovic\u0027s outstanding contribution to public health, but also his dedication and commitment to the CDC\/ATDSR mission.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 1985, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATDSR) have presented the Charles C. Shepard Science Award to authors of the most outstanding peer-reviewed research papers published by CDC\/ATDSR scientists during the preceding year. The award recognizes scientific achievement and honors the memory of Dr. Charles C. Shepard, whose career was marked by the pursuit of academic excellence. In addition to honoring publications in three categories - Assessment and Epidemiology, Prevention and Control, and Laboratory and Methods - there is also an award for Lifetime Scientific Achievement.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENomination for the Shepard award is, in itself, an honor and the winners for the different categories will not be revealed until the ceremony which takes place June 29, 2009 at the Tom Harkin Global Communications Center on the Roybal Campus at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMORE ABOUT DR. VIDAKOVIC\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?entry=bv20\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrani Vidakovic\u003C\/a\u003E is a Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University\u003C\/a\u003E and Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHealth Systems Institute\u003C\/a\u003E Center for Biostatistics and Data Management. Dr. Vidakovic came to Georgia Tech from Duke University, where he had been an Assistant Professor and tenured Associate Professor. Dr. Vidakovic holds a Ph.D. in statistics from Purdue University and his research areas include\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBayesian modeling and decision theory, clinical trials,  health statistics, wavelets and multiscale modeling, high frequency data  modeling, analysis of biomedical signals and images, statistical learning and  data mining, and statistics of turbulent flows. He is a Fellow of American Statistical Association, an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute and associate editor for \u003Cem\u003EJournal of the American Statistical Association, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Communications in  Statistics, and Bayesian Statistics\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Brani Vidakovic, Ph.D., along with his co-authors, has been nominated for the 2009 Charles C. Shepard Science Award in recognition for his authorship on the manuscript \u0022The Effectiveness of Sealants in Managing Carious Lesions\u0022 in the Assessment \u0026amp; Epidemiology category.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"HSI professor recognized for contribution to public health"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2009-05-21 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:25","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59760":{"id":"59760","type":"image","title":"Dr. Brani Vidakovic, Professor, Wallace H. Coulter","body":null,"created":"1449176227","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:07","changed":"1475894265","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:45","alt":"Dr. Brani Vidakovic, Professor, Wallace H. Coulter","file":{"fid":"190982","name":"tun37320.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tun37320_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tun37320_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":721856,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tun37320_0.jpg?itok=0eeIYEms"}}},"media_ids":["59760"],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"547","name":"brani"},{"id":"550","name":"health systems"},{"id":"549","name":"HSI"},{"id":"551","name":"oral"},{"id":"167169","name":"statistics"},{"id":"548","name":"vidakovic"},{"id":"552","name":"wavelets"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAndy Haleblian\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHealth Systems Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=ah141\u0022\u003EContact Andy Haleblian\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-0136\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["andyh@hsi.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"59761":{"#nid":"59761","#data":{"type":"news","title":"HSI Announces Recipients of the 2009-10 Seed Grant Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn response to its lastest call for proposals, the \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\u0027\u003EHealth Systems Institute\u003C\/a\u003E received 40 outstanding proposals, including several for phase 2 funding. Over 30 reviewers with varied expertise from several units at Georgia Tech, Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Atlanta Veteran\u0027s Administration Center of Excellence evaluated the proposals and made recommendations. HSI leadership in conjunction with the leadership at the various sponsoring organizations made final funding decisions.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo view the list of the proposals that will receive funding, please \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\/research\/seedgrants\/index.php#2009-10\u0027\u003Evisit the 2009-10 HSI Seed Grant area with the HSI website to view the proposals\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Seed Grant Program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn collaboration with the colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Management, Sciences as well as Research Centers (GVU \u0026amp; GTISC) at GT, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Emory University\u0027s School of Nursing, the Georgia Tech and Emory University Predictive Health Institute (PHI), Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta (Children\u0027s) and Atlanta Veteran\u0027s Administration R\u0026amp;D Center of Excellence (Atlanta VA RR\u0026amp;D CoE), the Health Systems Institute (HSI) has established a seed grant funding program to support collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects that will help stimulate innovative healthcare research and promote improvements in healthcare. The seed grant awards are specifically designed to provide funding for novel projects that demonstrate a high potential for enhanced diagnostic capabilities of diseases, lead to new inventions that yield new patents, licenses and\/or commercial products, lead to high quality peer-reviewed publications and those with high potential to leverage seed funding into extra-mural support. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Seven proposals funded during latest round"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Health Systems Institute (HSI) is pleased to announce the awardees for the 2009-10 seed grant funding program for collaborative and interdisciplinary projects to stimulate research with direct relevance to health and healthcare delivery.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Latest round of seed grant recipients announced"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2009-08-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:25","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59762":{"id":"59762","type":"image","title":"Health Systems Institute Seed Grant Program","body":null,"created":"1449176227","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:07","changed":"1475894265","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:45","alt":"Health Systems Institute Seed Grant Program","file":{"fid":"190983","name":"teu10382.gif","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/teu10382_0.gif","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/teu10382_0.gif","mime":"image\/gif","size":2778,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/teu10382_0.gif?itok=3Btw0S6g"}}},"media_ids":["59762"],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2494","name":"Health Systems Institute"},{"id":"170780","name":"seed grant program"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAndy Haleblian\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHealth Systems Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=ah141\u0022\u003EContact Andy Haleblian\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-0136\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["andyh@hsi.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"59763":{"#nid":"59763","#data":{"type":"news","title":"HSI Seed Grant Recipients Receive Federal Grants to Continue Work","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Health Systems Institute (HSI) is pleased to announce that two seed grant recipients have recently received federal grants to continue their work. The initial funding for these research efforts was provided via the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\/research\/seedgrants\/\u0022\u003EHSI Seed Grant program\u003C\/a\u003E, an initiative to support collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects that are designed to help stimulate innovative healthcare research and promote improvements in healthcare.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\nReceived a grant from the Research to Aid People with Disabilities (RAPD) program at the National Science Foundation (NSF).\n\n\u003Ch3\u003ECollaborative Research: Assistive Object Manipulation via RFID Guided Robots\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E For millions of people, motor impairments diminish quality of life, reduce independence, and increase healthcare costs. Assistive mobile robots that manipulate objects within everyday settings have the potential to improve quality of life by augmenting people\u0027s abilities with a cooperative robot. In spite of this promising opportunity, autonomous mobile robots are not yet robust enough for daily operation in real homes. The proposed research directly addresses the challenges of achieving this competence through novel, innovative research that combines RFID-based sensing with autonomous mobile manipulation. Key insights of the proposed work are that the current range of ultra-high frequency passive RFID \u0027smart labels\u0027 makes it feasible for robots to read them from across a room and that their low cost (sub-$0.25) means they can be ubiquitously attached to important objects throughout the home. The unambiguous digital signals available from tagged objects could be profoundly enabling for an assistive robot in three ways which this research will investigate and exploit: (1) scanning a room to provide reliable unique identification of important tagged objects so the robot can provide the user with a menu of available objects and be informed about the objects (e.g., their appearance and appropriate manipulative actions) (2) long-range localization of a tagged object based on its signal characteristics so the robot can approach the object and (3) short-range localization and identification through novel finger-mounted antennas to help the robot manipulate the object, including grasping it and confirming that it has been grasped. We will research these transformative capabilities for assistive robots in the context of object retrieval. Our studies with physically-impaired patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) from the Emory ALS Center clearly demonstrate that object retrieval via an autonomous mobile robot would be a valued assistive technology, and these capabilities could serve as a foundation upon which other assistive services could be built. We will evaluate the RFID guided robot that results from this research with ALS patients. The robot will include a novel menu-driven user interface that will enable a physically-impaired user to easily select an object and an appropriate delivery method. After this selection, the robot will find, approach, grasp, and deliver the requested object.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInvestigators: \u003C\/strong\u003ECharles Kemp (GT, Robotics) and Matt Reynolds (GT, Computing)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2007-2008 HSI Seed Grant:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\/research\/seedgrants\/profile.php?gid=60\u0022\u003ERobust People Following via RFID for Assistive Mobile Robots\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Melissa Kemp has been honored with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\/news\/release.php?id=3402\u0022\u003E\u0022New Innovator\u0022 award\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ERedox Regulation of Cellular Information Processing\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E Elevated concentrations of extracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS)  are hallmarks of inflammation, and decades of medical research have  focused on suppression of these molecules to treat pathologies as  diverse as rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, and atherosclerosis with mixed  results. More recently, researchers have discovered that these same  molecules are produced during the course of normal signal transduction.  In order to effectively treat inflammation, we must understand these  distinct roles for reactive oxygen species. I propose an innovative  research program that will elucidate the role of hydrogen peroxide, a  key ROS, in normal cell signaling through computational models and  laboratory experiments. This research will lead to a new, quantitative  understanding of ROS and facilitate the development of effective  antioxidant treatments for inflammation. This project will use three  complementary approaches to evaluate the complex regulatory role of  hydrogen peroxide on receptor-induced signaling. First, we will develop  computational network models describing redox regulation of proteins in  a time-dependent manner. Secondly, we are designing new methods to  detect oxidative changes on multiple proteins simultaneously. These  assays will allow investigation of the relationships between  phosphorylation of signal transduction molecules and reversible thiol  modifications. Finally, we have created a series of cell lines in which  key components of the redox network have been perturbed that  demonstrate augmentation and attenuation of receptor signaling. These  lines will be used to systematically investigate the efficiency of  three receptor networks-a pro-inflammatory cue (TNF-\u03b1),  anti-inflammatory cue (TGF-\u03b2), and antigenic response (TCR)-under  different oxidative environments. The results of these studies will  provide the first computational modeling platform capable of  interpreting incongruous literature reports of oxidative effects on  cellular information processing. This project leverages my unique  experience at the interface of immunology, systems biology, and  metabolism to address a fundamental mechanism of cellular regulation  critical for a large class of therapeutic drugs.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInvestigator:\u003C\/strong\u003E Melissa Kemp (GT\/Emory, Biomedical Engineering)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2007-2008 HSI Seed Grant: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\/research\/seedgrants\/profile.php?gid=49\u0022\u003EEvaluation and Modeling of Redox Regulation of NF-kappaB in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia cells: Role in Drug Resistance\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Health Systems Institute\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EHealth Systems Institute\u0027s\u003C\/a\u003E mission is to develop and implement novel multidisciplinary and collaborative research, education, and outreach programs to transform healthcare delivery systems from an ineffective, reactive, disease-focused system to one that is cost-effective, proactive, and focused on health and wellness. We leverage engineering and computing innovation towards the Four Cornerstones of Value-driven Healthcare, by: 1) supporting interoperable health information systems and products; 2) supporting the knowledge and comparison of the quality of care delivered; 3) promoting the availability of cost and price information together with quality information; and 4) encouraging and facilitating high-quality and cost effective healthcare.","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Health Systems Institute (HSI) is pleased to announce that three seed grant recipients have recently received federal grants to continue their work. The initial funding for these research efforts were provided via the HSI Seed Grant program, an initiative to support collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects that are designed to help stimulate innovative healthcare research and promote improvements in healthcare.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Investigators recognized for contribution to respective fields"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2009-10-13 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:25","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-10-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-10-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1290","name":"federal funding"},{"id":"2494","name":"Health Systems Institute"},{"id":"167679","name":"Seed Grant"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAndy Haleblian\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHealth Systems Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=ah141\u0022\u003EContact Andy Haleblian\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-0136\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["andyh@hsi.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"59764":{"#nid":"59764","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-CHOA Team Receives Scientific Award of Excellence","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA joint Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) and Georgia Tech team headed by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.choa.org\/default.aspx?id=1451\u0022\u003EDr. Atul Vats (CHOA)\u003C\/a\u003E and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=pk50\u0022\u003EPinar Keskinocak (H. 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Congratulations to the team on this award.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT SCCM\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest  multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and  consistency in the practice of critical care. With 14,000  members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents  all professional components of the critical care team. The Society  offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care,  education, research, and advocacy.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA joint team headed by Dr. Atul Vats (CHOA) and Professor Pinar Keskinocak (H. 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Working alongside members of the local community and staff from Health in Harmony, a local organization linking environmental and individual health, the team was given a remarkable opportunity to bring high quality healthcare to an impoverished and under-served community. The final designs reflect a facility that is both culturally sensitive and locally appropriate, giving deep consideration to traditional building methods and materials, local culture, sustainable practice and the latest research in evidence-based design.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPBS NewsHour Extra featured the effort in one of its stories, \u0022No Insurance, On Borneo the Doc Takes Manure\u0022. 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