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Faculty profiles

 

Dionne M. Aleman
  • Dionne M. Aleman
  • Degrees and Titles - Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering (University of Florida), Assistant Professor (University of Toronto)
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - (416) 978 6780
  • Personal/Lab Website Address - http://morlab.mie.utoronto.ca
  • Research - Medical applications of operations research; intensity modulated radiation therapy treatment planning; donor selection for organ transplants; modeling disease spread during an outbreak; operating room scheduling

Baris Balcioglu
  • Baris Balcioglu
  • Degrees and Titles - Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering (Rutgers), Assistant Professor (University of Toronto)
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Cross Appointments - Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Ottawa
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - (416) 978 7546
  • Personal/Lab Website Address - http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/staff/profiles/baris/
  • Research - healthcare engineering: minimizing patient flow times, patient triage problems in emergency response, control of blood products and organ supplies

J. Christopher Beck
  • J. Christopher Beck
  • Degrees and Titles - Assistant Professor, BSc (St. Francis Xavier), 1992, MSc (Toronto), 1994, PhD (Toronto), 1999
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Cross Appointments - Computer Science
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - (416) 946 8854
  • Personal/Lab Website Address - http://tidel.mie.utoronto.ca
  • Research - healthcare engineering; algorithms and solvers for solving combinatorial optimization problems; heuristic search, constraint programming, constraint-directed scheduling, hybrid algorithms, dynamic and uncertain problems, problem modeling; applications and extensions of these approaches to operating room scheduling, cancer treatment planning, emergency vehicle capacity, location, and stocking and capacity planning

Timothy C.Y.Chan
  • Timothy C.Y.Chan
  • Degrees and Titles - Assistant Professor, PhD (MIT)
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416-946-5721
  • Personal/Lab Website Address - http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/faculty/chan/
  • Research - Optimization under uncertainty, mathematical programming, decision analysis, probabilistic analysis of systems; applications to radiation therapy treatment planning, health care delivery, medical device supply chain logistics

Michael W. Carter
  • Michael W. Carter
  • Degrees and Titles - Ph.D. (Waterloo)
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Cross Appointments - Computer Science, School of Public Policy and Governance
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - (416) 978 5023
  • Personal/Lab Website Address - http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/labs/health/
  • Research - healthcare process improvements

Mark H. Chignell
  • Mark H. Chignell
  • Degrees and Titles - PhD (Canterbury)
  • Home Department - Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416 978 8951
  • Personal/Lab Website Address - http://imedia.mie.utoronto.ca/people/chignel/
  • Research - Human Factors/Ergonomics

Mariano P. Consens
  • Mariano P. Consens
  • Degrees and Titles - Systems Engineer (U.R.Uruguay), MSc, PhD (Toronto)
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Cross Appointments - Computer Science, Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - (416) 946 8851
  • Personal/Lab Website Address - http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/faculty/consens/
  • Research - Data Modeling and Business Process Engineering: enabling organizations and users to improve processes, accessing data from multiple sources, when and where they need it. healthcare data management: access, availability, and preservation of patient and practice information; web data management, information retrieval, and visualization

Daniel Frances
  • Daniel Frances
  • Degrees and Titles - Ph.D., P.Eng., Senior Lecturer
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - (416) 946 7435
  • Personal/Lab Website Address - http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/faculty/frances/
  • Research - healthcare engineering: the application of simulation techniques with information systems, the application of operations research and interfaces with information systems, and the application of lean principles

Paul Milgram
  • Paul Milgram
  • Degrees and Titles - Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering: Toronto), MSEE (Electrical Engineering: Technion), BASc (Engineering Science: Toronto), P.Eng
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Cross Appointments - Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Psychology, Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - (416) 978 3662
  • Personal/Lab Website Address - http://etclab.mie.utoronto.ca/
  • Research - display control and navigation issues in 3D environments, in particular relation to minimal access / endoscopic surgery; (video) image processing and display augmentation; perceptual and cognitive issues related to anaesthesiology; patient training issues related to nocturnal home haemodialysis; medication reconciliation

 

Student profiles

 

Michael Beeler
  • Michael Beeler
  • Current Program - MASc
  • Degrees and Titles - HBSc
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Supervisor - Prof. Michael Carter and Prof. Dionne Aleman
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416-978-5023
  • Research - pandemic simulation, vaccine distribution, public health policy, rural health service delivery

Jenya Doudareva
  • Jenya Doudareva
  • Current Program - M.A.Sc.
  • Degrees and Titles - B.A.Sc.
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Supervisor - Prof. Michael Carter
  • Email Address -
  • Research - Physician order tracking at Sunnybrook Emergency Department

Ali Vahit Esensoy
  • Ali Vahit Esensoy
  • Current Program - Ph.D. / MASc
  • Degrees and Titles - BASc in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Supervisor - Dr. Michael W. Carter
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - (416) 978 5023
  • Research - Quantitative tools for policy evaluation and deployment, system dynamics, GIS applications in emergency response planning, probabilistic data linkage applied to health record integration.

Ronak Gandhi
  • Ronak Gandhi
  • Current Program - MHSc in Clinical Engineering Degrees
  • Degrees and Titles - BASc in Engineering Science (Biomedical)
  • Home Department - IBBME
  • Supervisor - Prof. Michael Carter
  • Email Address -
  • Research - Scheduling in healthcare, workflow process improvement

Shoshana Hahn Goldberg
  • Shoshana Hahn Goldberg
  • Current Program - PhD Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
  • Degrees and Titles - MASc in Industrial Engineering (University of Toronto)BASc
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Supervisor - Dr. Michael W. Carter
  • Email Address -
  • Research - Healthcare systems research using operations techniques. Looking at scheduling cancer treatment patients.

Anna Graber
  • Anna Graber
  • Current Program - PhD in Healthcare Operations research (CREATE program)
  • Degrees and Titles - MSc in Statistics, BSc in Industrial Engineering
  • Supervisor - Prof. Michael Carter, Prof. Vedat Verter
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416-978-5023
  • Research - Primary care facility planning

Jane Ip
  • Jane Ip
  • Current Program - MASc
  • Degrees and Titles - BASc in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Supervisor - Prof. Michael Carter
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416-978-5023
  • Research - Designing quantitative tools that evaluate efficiency and provide targets for health care organizations to improve operations at their institutes.

Tian M Liu
  • Tian M Liu
  • Current Program - MASc
  • Degrees and Titles - BASc in Engineering Science
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Supervisor - Prof. Michael Carter
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416-978-5023
  • Research - Resource Allocation, OR Scheduling

Mahsa Shateri
  • Mahsa Shateri
  • Current Program - PhD, Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
  • Degrees and Titles - MASc,Management Science Engineering, University of Waterloo, BAS
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Supervisor - Prof. Michael Carter
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416-978-5023
  • Research - Identifying risks associated with the different staff to patient ratios for facility-based dialysis centers while ensuring the required quality of health care services and appropriate staffing resources.

Daphne Sniekers
  • Daphne Sniekers
  • Current Program - PhD
  • Degrees and Titles - MASc in Industrial Engineering (University of Toronto)
    BS
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Supervisor - Dr. Michael W. Carter
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - (416) 978 5023
  • Research - Improving strategic decision making for perioperative patient flow of a hospital through a user-friendly, simulation-based decision support tool. Designing a generalized framework to allow other hospitals to build their own perioperative decision support tool.

Jonathan Wang
  • Jonathan Wang
  • Current Program - MASc in Industrial Engineering (University of Toronto)
  • Degrees and Titles - BASc in Engineering Science (Biomedical Engineering, University
  • Home Department - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Supervisor - Prof. Michael Carter
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416-978-5023
  • Research - Quantifying and Forecasting Emergency Department Overcrowding at Sunnybrook, Pandemic Surge Capacity Planning, Applications of Handheld Technology in Healthcare

Sherry Weaver
  • Sherry Weaver
  • Current Program - PhD Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
  • Degrees and Titles - BASc.,B.Ed.,MBA.
  • Home Department - Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary
  • Supervisor - Dr. Michael W.Carter
  • Email Address -
  • Research - Advanced spreadsheet modeling using VBA, capacity planning, scheduling and discrete event simulation. Her research has been applied to the development of educational tools, call centre modeling and healthcare capacity planning and scheduling in Alberta.

 

Staff profiles

 

Nadia Berger
  • Nadia Berger
  • Title - Healthcare Engineering Project Lead
  • Degrees and Titles - BASc
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416-978-1178

Adriane Castellino
  • Adriane Castellino
  • Title - Healthcare Engineering Project Lead
  • Degrees and Titles - BASc & MBA
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416 978 5023
  • Research - process improvement, capacity planning, pandemic planning

Neil McEvoy
  • Neil McEvoy
  • Title - Director
  • Degrees and Titles - MBA, CHE, PEng
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416-978-3470

Matthew Nelson
  • Matthew Nelson
  • Title - Healthcare Engineering Project Lead
  • Degrees and Titles - B.Eng , MM in OR
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416-978-5023

Sonia Vanderby
  • Sonia Vanderby
  • Title - Post-doctoral Fellow
  • Degrees and Titles - PhD University of Toronto
  • Email Address -
  • Office Phone - 416.978.1178
  • Research - System Dynamics,emergency care,patient flow planning,cost effectiveness of diagnostic technologies,health human resources.

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