Balasubramanian, Hari
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Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering
Last Name
Balasubramanian
First Name
Hari
Discipline
Mechanical Engineering
Expertise
Operations research applied to healthcare delivery, specifically patient access management and medical decision making and health policy; scheduling theory and algorithms; combinatorial optimization; heuristics; genetic algorithms.
Introduction
I am an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) at Amherst. I joined UMass in the Fall of 2008. I obtained my PhD from the Industrial Engineering department at Arizona State University in August 2006. From Aug 2006-August 2008, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Health Sciences Research at the Mayo Clinic, a large academic medical institution in Rochester, Minnesota.
My primary research interests are broadly in operations research applied to healthcare delivery. Some examples: I've worked on planning and scheduling of surgical suites; designing primary care physician panels to maximize timeliness and patient-physician continuity; and optimization of prostate cancer screening decisions. I have also recently begun looking at improving emergency room operations and capacity planning in hospitals.
My primary research interests are broadly in operations research applied to healthcare delivery. Some examples: I've worked on planning and scheduling of surgical suites; designing primary care physician panels to maximize timeliness and patient-physician continuity; and optimization of prostate cancer screening decisions. I have also recently begun looking at improving emergency room operations and capacity planning in hospitals.