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<![CDATA[Keskinocak, Team Win 2010 EURO Excellence in Practice Award]]>
After
being selected as one of six finalists out of a pool of seventy-three
submissions from all over the world, the paper titled “Catch-Up Scheduling for Childhood Vaccination” was
awarded the 2010 EURO Excellence in Practice
Award. The paper is co-authored by Pinar Keskinocak,
who is the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor in Industrial and Systems
Engineering (ISyE), co-director in the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, and associate director of
research in the Health Systems Institute; former ISyE Ph.D.
student Faramroze Engineer (DR IE 2009); and Dr. Larry Pickering from the CDC.
The paper
describes the decision-support tool for constructing catch-up schedules
for childhood immunization. The
web-based tool creates a safe and effective catch-up schedule for any missed
vaccinations to ensure that a child receives timely coverage
against vaccine-preventable diseases. The catch-up scheduler is available for
free download from CDC’s website http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/scheduler/catchup.htm.
According to Keskinocak, “our
approach is unique in methodology, information, strategy, and advice it offers
to the user.” The tool is being advocated by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Keskinocak presented the paper at
a special session of the EURO INFORMS 2010 conference in Lisbon, Portugal in
July. EURO is the Association of
European Operational Research Societies within IFORS,
the International Federation of
Operational Research Societies.
With
the goal of recognizing outstanding accomplishments in the practice of
operations research, the Excellence in Practice Award is given based upon scientific quality; relevance to operational research; originality
in methodology, implementations and/ or field of application; a real impact to
practice; and appreciation by the organization involved with the application.
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After
being selected as one of six finalists out of a pool of seventy-three
submissions from all over the world, the paper titled “Catch-Up Scheduling for Childhood Vaccination” was
awarded the 2010 EURO Excellence in Practice
Award. The paper is co-authored by Pinar Keskinocak,
who is the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor in Industrial and Systems
Engineering (ISyE), co-director in the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, and associate director of
research in the Health Systems Institute; former ISyE Ph.D.
student Faramroze Engineer (DR IE 2009); and Dr. Larry Pickering from the CDC.]]>
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