Table of Contents

1. A Synthesis Of Operational Research For Emergency Planning In Healthcare Through The Triple Lens Of Technique-Domain-Context; N. Mustafee PART I: OR FOR LOCATING EMERGENCY SERVICES 2. Locating Emergency Services With Different Priorities: The Priority Queuing Covering Location Problem; F. Silva And D. Serra 3. Decision Support Tools For Ambulance Dispatch And Relocation; T. Andersson And P. Varbrand 4. A Study Of Situationally Aware Routing For Emergency Responders; M. J. Henchey, R. Batta, A. Blatt, M. Flanigan And K. Majka PART II: OR FOR OPERATIONAL PLANNING IN EMERGENCY SERVICES 5. Multi-Criteria Approach Using Simulation-Based Balanced Scorecard For Supporting Decisions In Health-Care Facilities: An Emergency Department Case Study; W. Abo-Hamad And A. Arisha 6. Combining Data Mining And Discrete Event Simulation For A Value-Added View Of A Hospital Emergency Department; R. Ceglowski, L. Churilov And J. Wasserthiel 7. Uncovering Effective Process Improvement Strategies In An Emergency Department Using Discrete Event Simulation; O.H. Choon, Z. Dali, P.T. Beng And C.P.Y Magdalene 8. Improving The Design And Operation Of An Integrated Emergency Post Via Simulation; N.J. Borgman, M.R.K. Mes, I.M.H Vliegen And E.W. Hans 9. A Simulation Case Study To Improve Staffing Decisions At Mass Immunization Clinics For Pandemic Influenza; M. F. Beeler, D. M. Aleman And M. W. Carter 10. Modelling Treatment Effects In The HIV/AIDS Epidemic; J.D. Griffiths, Z.F. Lawson And J.E. Williams PART III: OR FOR INVENTORY MANAGEMENT IN EMERGENCY SERVICES 11. Impact Of The Influenza Season On A Hospital From A Pharmaceutical Inventory Management Perspective; A. R. Vila-Parrish, J. S. Ivy And B. He 12. Perishable Inventory Management System With A Minimum Volume Constraint; Z. Shen, M. Dessouky And F. Ordonez 13. A Bayesian Decision Model With Hurricane Forecast Updates For Emergency Supplies Inventory Management; S. Taskin And E.J. Lodree 14. Using Simulation To Improve The Blood Supply Chain; K. Katsaliaki And S.C. Brailsford

About the Author

Navonil Mustafee is Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Exeter Business School. He has published several peer-reviewed articles on healthcare modelling and simulation and has worked with the NHS in Wales and England on a number of capacity management studies which have used Operations Research techniques. Currently, he is engaged in collaborative studies with the Horizon Institute at Torbay Hospital. More widely, his research interests include simulation methodology (e.g. hybrid simulation, mix of soft-hard OR), parallel and distributed simulation, and bibliometric analysis of research domains.

He has authored close to 100 peer-reviewed papers in journals, conferences and chapters in books, and has co-edited one conference proceedings (UKORS OR55 conference). He is Associate Editor for Simulation (the transactions of the Society for Modeling & Simulation International) and the Journal of Simulation (a publication of the UK OR society), and serves on the editorial board of several other journals. He has served as the program co-chair for the UK OR Society's 2013 annual conference (OR55) and program chair for the Spring Simulation Multi-conference 2014 (SpringSim14). He is conference vice-general chair for SpringSim15 and co-program chair for the 2015 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS).