Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1974
Professor Emeritus
cost effectiveness, health care management |
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- 1974 Ph.D., Applied Mathematics (Operations Research), Harvard University Thesis: The Management of Patients with End? Stage Renal Failure: A Decision Theoretic Approach 1970 S.M., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University 1969 B.Sc., Mathematics Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Decision analysis. Utility theory.
- Operations research applications to health care and medicine.
- Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis in health care.
- Health services research.
- Clinical decision-making processes.
- Technology Assessment.
- Operations management in health care organizations.
- Focused management.
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
- Operations management
- Influenza vaccination
- Second medical opinions
Major expertise and techniques in the lab
- Decision analysis
- Operations research
- Operations management
Publications and funding summary / representative publications and grants
- Vashitz , G., Pliskin , J.S., Parmet , Y., Kosashvili , Y., Ifergane , G., Wientroub , S. and Davidovitch N., “Do first opinions affect second opinions?,” Journal of General Internal Medicine (In press, 2012).
- Keren , B. and Pliskin , J.S “Optimal Timing of Joint Replacement using Mathematical Programming and Stochastic Programming Models”, Health Care Management Science, DOI 10.1007/s10729-011-9172-9, 2011.
- Zuker , A., Heart, T., Parmet , Y., Pliskin , N. and Pliskin , J.S., "Electronic Notification about Drug Substitutes can Change Physician Prescription Habits,“ Medical Decision Making, Vol. 31, No. 3:395-404, 2011.
Suggested multi-disciplinary research project / research focus topics
- Influenza vaccination
- Improving operations in health care organizations