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Cluster Chairs<\/h1> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Committee’s Choice Clusters<\/h4> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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AI in Healthcare<\/h2>\n

Margret Vilborg Bjarnadottir, University of Maryland<\/p>\n

Global Health and Humanitarian Operations<\/h2>\n

Douglas Bish, University of Alabama<\/p>\n

Health Opportunities for All<\/h2>\n

Lauren Davis, North Carolina A&T State University<\/p>\n

Healthcare Operations Management<\/h2>\n

Nan Liu, Boston College<\/p>\n

Susan F. Lu, University of Toronto<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Healthcare Practice<\/h2>\n

Natalia Summerville, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center<\/p>\n

Healthcare Quality and Safety<\/h2>\n

Priya R. Pennathur, University of Texas at El Paso<\/p>\n

Healthcare Technology and Bioinformatics<\/h2>\n

Anahita Khojandi, University of Tennessee<\/p>\n

Medical Decision Making<\/h2>\n

Turgay Ayer, Georgia Tech\u00a0<\/p>\n

Qiushi Chen, Penn State University<\/p>\n

Public Health Policy<\/h2>\n

Bjorn Berg, University of Minnesota<\/p>\n

Miao Bai, University of Connecticut<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Applied Probability<\/h2>\n

Yueyang Zhong, London Business School<\/p>\n

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Hossein Piri, Haskayen School of Business-University of Calgary<\/p>\n

eBusiness<\/h2>\n

Yeongin Kim, Wake Forest University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Weiguang Wang, Johns Hopkins University<\/div>\n
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Health Applications Society\/Health Economics and Finance<\/h2>\n

Jennifer Lobo, University of Virginia<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Hyojung Kang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Location Analysis<\/h2>\n

Ibrahim Capar, University of North Carolina Wilmington<\/p>\n

Minority Issues Forum (MIF)<\/h2>\n

Shannon Harris, Virginia Commonwealth University\u00a0<\/p>\n

Karen Hicklin, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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MSOM: Healthcare\u00a0<\/h2>\n

Michael Lingzhi Li, Harvard Business School\u00a0<\/p>\n

Simulation Society<\/h2>\n

Sara Shashaani, North Carolina State University<\/span><\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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