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Toumazis receives Society of Health Systems award
Published March 2, 2015 This content is archived.
Iakovos Toumazis received the 2015 Society of Health Systems Graduate Student Paper Competition award for his paper, "Scheduling palliative chemotherapy treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer patients."
The research investigates optimal sequence of available treatments as well as their duration.
Toumazis presented the winning paper at the Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference, held on February 18-20 in Orlando, FL. Judging criteria was based on originality and soundness, applicability, methodology, organization and quality of the paper.
The Society of Health Systems is a society of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), with a mission to contribute to the improvement of healthcare processes through systems engineering, analysis, and process improvement methods.
Toumazis is a PhD student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE). Co-authors are graduate students Loukia G. Karacosta, biomedical sciences and Artemis Toumazi, ISE, and Murat Kurt and Changhyun Kwon, both assistant professors, ISE.
Addendum (July 17, 2015)
Toumazis will be joining Stanford University's School of Medicine as a post-doctoral fellowth in the fall of 2015.
