THE INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
FIFTH IMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTITATIVE MODELLING IN THE
MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH CARE
http://www.healthcareinformatics.org.uk/imahealth2007
will be held at Goodenough College, central London on 2nd - 4th April 2007.
Aim and Scope
Health and Social Care systems are undergoing major changes worldwide, due
in part to changes in demography and in part to increased competition
between parts of the system whether they are hospitals, primary care trusts,
or general practitioners. Yet running health and social care systems
efficiently and effectively is crucial to improving or even maintaining our
quality of life. Over the years, extensive research has been conducted to
find immediate and long-term solutions to issues that are routinely faced by
health and social care management professionals, such as waiting lists and
bed capacity, hospital redesign, workforce planning and scheduling, patient
flow modelling, performance management, disease monitoring, and health care
technology assessment. Simulation and modelling techniques[*] have shown to
be increasingly valuable in providing useful information to aid planning and
management.
The aim of the conference is to bring together health care managers,
clinicians, management consultants, and mathematicians, operational
researchers, statisticians, economists, computer scientists etc from across
the world with a view to bridging the gap between the communities and to
exploring recent developments and identifying fruitful avenues for further
research.
Keynote Speakers
Nick Barber, Professor, Head of Department of Practice and Policy, School of
Pharmacy, London, UK
Stephen Chick, Professor, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
Andrew Dillon, Chief Executive, National Institute of Health and Clinical
Excellence (NICE), UK
Nigel Edwards, Director of Policy, NHS Confederation, UK
Steve Gallivan, Professor, Director of Clinical Operational Research Unit,
University College London, UK
Mike Pidd, Professor, Associate Dean, Management School, University of
Lancaster, UK
Yasar Ozcan, Professor, Department of Health Administration, Virginia
Commonwealth University, USA
Call for Papers
We invite researchers in all relevant problem domains and methodologies to
submit abstracts of 300-500 words to Lucy Nye at [log in to unmask] by 1
December 2006. Case studies are particularly welcome. Authors of accepted
abstracts submitted by 1 December 2006 will be notified by 1 January 2007.
Authors should indicate whether they wish to make an oral or a poster
presentation. Poster presentations are particularly welcome as they
stimulate discussion and feedback. We are also planning a special poster
presentation session for PhD students to show their work in progress.
Selected papers presented at the conference (whether orally or as a poster)
will be published in the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics and the
Springer journal Health Care Management Science.
The Venue
Goodenough College is a beautiful residential college for international
postgraduate students and visiting academics. It lies in the heart of
London's Bloomsbury, an area reputed for its pubs, restaurants, and cultural
activities, within ten minute walk from the British Museum and the British
Library, and benefits from excellent transport links. Further information
can be found at the College's website - http://www.goodenough.ac.uk
Organising Committee
Thierry Chaussalet (Chair), University of Westminster; Rose Baker,
University of Salford; Sally Brailsford, University of Southampton; Adele
Marshall, Queen's University, Belfast; Peter Millard, St George's Hospital
Medical School; Martin Pitt, Peninsula Medical School; Martin Utley, CORU,
University College London; Haifeng Xie, University of Westminster.
[*] Including statistical analysis, stochastic processes, queuing theory,
optimisation, heuristics, discrete event simulation, and system dynamics
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Dr. T.J. Chaussalet
Reader, School of Informatics
Department of Information Systems and Computing
University of Westminster
115 New Cavendish Street
London W1W 6UW
Tel: +44(0)207 911 5000
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.healthcareinformatics.org.uk
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