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Date: July 5, 2005 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:30 – 14:00 (sandwich lunch from 12:30 – 12:45;
seminar begins at 12:45)
Venue: Seminar Room 6, LG/F, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine
Building,
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Abstract:
Planning a large-scale emergency dispensing clinic to respond to
biological threats or infectious disease outbreaks can best be
accomplished using a specialized simulation and decision support
system that allows public health administrators to investigate
numerous designs and staffing scenarios quickly. In this seminar,
we present the design and development of such a system, RealOpt.
The system incorporates fast optimization technology seamlessly
interfaced with a simulation module. It enables optimizing the
placement of available staff at individual stations within a
treatment center so that maximum number of people can be treated
while maintaining a short average-time-spent-in-center for patients.
It can also determine the minimum staff requirements for treatment
of a regional population.
Demonstrations will be given regarding how the system can be used
as a training and planning tool for a single-site dispensing center,
and as a planning tool to assess current resources, estimate required
resources, and coordinate efforts among administrators from multiple
sites over large geographic regions. The system has been used by
public health administrators.
Bio-sketch:
Eva Lee is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for
Operations Research in Medicine in the School of Industrial and
Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr Lee
earned a PhD at Rice University in the Department of Computational
and Applied Mathematics. She was awarded an NSF/NATO postdoctoral
fellowship and a postdoctoral fellowship from Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum
Informationstechnik Berlin in 1995. In 1996, she received the
NSF CAREER Young Investigator Award for research on integer programming
and parallel algorithms. She was the recipient of the prestigious
Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Grant for Young Investigators
in 2000 for her work on novel biological imaging and combined
optimal treatment for prostate cancer. She is the first IE researcher
to receive this award. She also received an NSF Information Technology
Research Award for her work on computational advances for optimal
cancer treatment design in 2003.
Dr Lee works in the area of mathematical modeling and computational
algorithms with a primary emphasis on applications to medical and
biomedical problems. She has developed clinically relevant mathematical
models, algorithmic strategies and clinical decision-support systems
to help analyze large-scale biological, genomic and clinical data.
Specific applications on which she has worked include medical diagnosis;
optimal treatment design and drug delivery; early detection, target
intervention, monitoring and controlling of disease; and large-scale
biocomputing. She is also leading research in emergency responses
to bioterrorism and infectious disease outbreaks. Outside of the
biological and medical arena, Lee's research focuses on large-scale
optimization for optimal operations planning, resource allocation,
and logistics.
Registration:
For registration and enquiries, please call Ms Maggie Cheuk at
2819-2841 or email mhrn@hkusua.hku.hk
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