[Iefac.list] SHS 2010 student paper competition winners

[James Benneyan]

Please join me in congratulating Miekie Treurnicht and William Herring for
winning the Society for Health Systems (SHS) undergraduate and graduate student
paper competitions, presented at the recent 2010 SHS/ASQ conference:

Undergraduate paper competition
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Miekie Treurnicht, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
"A Decision Support Framework for Telemedicine Implementation in the Developing
World"

Graduate paper competition
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William Herring, University of Maryland
"A Stochastic Dynamic Program for the Single-day Surgery Scheduling Problem"

You can find their full papers and a CALL FOR NEXT YEAR's COMPETITION (posted
shortly) at:

http://www.shsweb.org
http://www.iienet2.org/shs/Details.aspx?id=18314

Many thanks to Premier Inc. for their continued sponsorship and partnership with
SHS, Colorado Technical University, and Promodel for helping launch the
competition 10 years ago.

Mark your calendars for next year's conference in Orlando, Feb 17-19 2011.

Best regards,
Jim Benneyan

James C. Benneyan, Ph.D.
Executive Director, New England Healthcare Systems Engineering Center
Director, Quality and Productivity Laboratory
334 Snell Engineering Center
Northeastern University, Boston MA 02115
T 617.373.2975, F 617.373.2921
Dept Admin: Joyce Crain, j.crain at neu.edu, 617.373.2740