William Pierskalla

The Health Applications Society of INFORMS sponsors an annual competition for the Pierskalla Award, which recognizes research excellence in the field of health care management science. The award includes a $500 honorarium for the best paper presented in a Health Applications Society sponsored session at the annual INFORMS conference. The award is named after Dr. William Pierskalla to recognize his contribution and dedication to improving health services delivery through operations research. Dr. Pierskalla is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Anderson School at UCLA and the Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor Emeritus, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and serves as an editor on numerous operations research journals.

Eligibility

To be considered for the award, a full paper must be submitted by the application deadline to the Chair of the Pierskalla Committee (see Application Process details below). The submission can be a working paper, a paper under review, or a previously published paper, and is not restricted to papers written by students. If desired by the authors, the winning paper will be published in Health Care Management Science if it has not been published or is not under review elsewhere.

Judging

Papers are judged by a panel of up to four representatives from the Health Applications Society on

• Contribution to operations research/management science in health care
• Readability, clarity and organization of the paper
• Technical content and scope relative to the length of the paper
• Originality

Up to five finalists will be selected and invited to present their work at the INFORMS annual meeting in a session devoted to the competition. The panel judging the papers reserves the right not to award a prize in any given year.

Application Process

An electronic copy in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) must be submitted to:

• Doug Bish (drb1@vt.edu), co-chair of the Pierskalla Committee
• Subject Line: 2012 INFORMS Pierskalla Award Submission
• Deadline: July 9, 2012

 The paper or the PDF file name should not contain any author identification. The PDF file name should be a short version of the paper’s title. Each submission must be accompanied by a single-page PDF cover letter containing:

• Names and affiliations of all co-authors
• Complete contact information of the corresponding author

The winning paper will not be announced until the Health Applications Society's business meeting at the INFORMS annual meeting.

2012 committee members

Co-Chair: Ebru Bish
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Co-Chair:Douglas Bish
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Previous recipients