Pierskalla Best Paper Award
Winning material:
Fully Adaptive Designs for Clinical Trials: Simultaneous Learning from Multiple Patients
Purpose of the Award
The Health Applications Section 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 Section 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.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | Awardee Vishal Ahuja John Birge |
|---|---|
| Runner-Up Reza Yaesoubi Ted Cohen | |
| Soo-Haeng Cho Tinglong Dai Fuqiang Zhang | |
| 2011 | Awardee Ebru Bish Douglas Bish Shiguang Xie Anthony Slonim |
| Runner-Up Stefanos A. Zenios, Stanford University Donald Lee | |
| 2010 | Awardee Soroush Saghafian, University of Michigan Wallace Hopp, University of Michigan Mark Van Oyen, University of Michigan Jeffrey Desmond Steven Kronick |
| 2009 | Awardee Mariel Lavieri, University of British Columbia Martin L. Puterman Scott Tyldesley William Morris |
| 2008 | Awardee W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Rutgers University Yaju Fan, Rutgers University Rajesh Sachdeo, Jersey Shore University Medical Center |
| 2007 | Awardee Chris P. Lee, University of Pennsylvania Stefanos A. Zenios, Stanford University |
| 2006 | Awardee Stephen Chick, INSEAD Hamed Mamani David Simchi-Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2005 | Awardee Eva K. Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology Siddhartha Maheshwary Jacquelyn Mason |
| 2004 | Awardee Panos M. Pardalos Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse Leonidas D. Iasemidis J. Chris Sackellares Deng-Shan Shiau Paul R. Carney Oleg A. Prokopyev Vitaliy A. Yatsenko |
| 2003 | Awardee H. Edwin Romeijn Ravindra K. Ahuja, University of Florida, ISE Department James F. Dempsey Arvind Kumar |
| 2002 | Awardee Jinho Lim, University of Houston Michael C. Ferris David M. Shepard |
| 2001 | Awardee Gregory S. Zaric, University of Western Ontario, Richard Ivey School of Business Margaret L. Brandeau, Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering |
| 2000 | Awardee Allen Holder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
