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Appeared in "Chapter 9: The Virus – New York City " in The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas, 2022 by Gal Beckerman.
“Decentralized Health | COVID-19 Data, Vaccines, and Public Policy Strategies.” Featured interview in Health Unchained. April 2021.
”Everything you wanted to know about Covid-19 from Red Dawn scientist.” Featured interview in Nerds for Humanity November 13 2020.
Appeared in Totally Under Control 2020, a documentary directed and produced by Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, Suzanne Hillinger. Public health officials discuss the U.S. government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. October 2020.
Modeling and Evaluating Intervention Options and Strategies for COVID-19 Containment. COVID-19 Simulation Summit keynote: April 2020.
Research Leadership Team
Principal Investigator: Eva K Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Investigator: John Birge, University of Chicago
Overview
Interdependencies & cascading effects of disasters on critical infrastructure
There are 16 critical infrastructure (CI) sectors whose assets, systems and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on national security, economic security, national public health or safety. The research at CAOE will focus on the impact cyberattacks have on critical infrastructure and how these attacks can have far-reaching cascading consequences.
Solution
This project is developing advanced analytics methodologies to investigate cyber-physical disruption, interdependencies systems consequences and cascading effects.
The analytic tools and design framework being designed will offer the DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate, Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis (OCIA) insights that may influence guidelines and enable policymakers to quickly assess cybersecurity threats and develop plans and policies that help mitigate disastrous cascading events.
The key objectives and goals:
Identify hidden vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure networks that can be targeted by adversaries.
Analyze cascading, inter-dependent system effects over critical structures.
Design systems and network simulation technology to quantify the performance of preventive measures and their cost-effectiveness.
Quantify the analytic capabilities and limitations in terms of scale and scope of systems that can be modeled and analyzed meaningfully.
Impact
Assessing cybersecurity threats on critical infrastructure
Cyberattacks have the potential to cause major disruption to our critical infrastructures. Working with DHS OCIA, CAOE is equipping analytic leaders with new tools and frameworks that will more quickly assess potential disruptions and help mitigate possible cascading events. Read the full article
Research Leadership Team
Principal Investigator: Eva K Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Economic risk management is a critical component across multiple DHS programs. CAOE is working with DHS to review current risk assessment processes and develop advanced technologies to improve risk detection, risk mitigation and operations efficiency. The initial focus is on TSA strategies.
The primary goals of the project are to establish a quantitative construct for enterprise risk management for TSA and analyze screening strategies and tradeoffs.
Establish a quantitative construct for enterprise risk management for TSA: The portfolio risk model determines an optimal investment portfolio under resource constraints to include the additional screening resources needed. Analyzing both normal operations and operations when the system is under stress at various levels, including potential attacks, will determine how best to invest any additional resources for the best risk protection and return on investment.
Analyze screening strategies and tradeoffs: Large airports with a high volume of passenger flow often experience long queues and wait times. Crowd control is essential for safety but screening is labor intensive and must be optimized for best performance. The project team is developing a simulation optimization modeling tool that analyzes screening strategies and captures tradeoffs in passenger wait time/queue (satisfaction) vs. systems utilization and prioritization of screening.
This project will enable TSA to more effectively invest in their resources and manage enterprise-level risks by giving leaders a tool to consider tradeoffs between risks, associated costs and value-added elements across the organization. When completed, it will provide leaders with economic and tradeoff tools for making better policy recommendations and changes. Read the full article
"Opioid: Protecting the Innocents." Shaping Opinion: People, events and things that have shaped the way we think. podcast: August 2018.
Professor Lee is the first IE/OR engineer to be nominated and elected for this honor. Read the full article
ORMS Today, February 3, 2019 Women of O.R. A Powerful, Pragmatic Pioneer An ORMS Today article profiles ISyE Professor Eva Lee and her trailblazing work of applying OR methods to medical questions.
Simply put, Eva Lee loves math. She studied theoretical mathematics as an undergraduate, and when she came to the U.S. for graduate school, she thought math was the only subject of study to choose. That is, until she learned about operations research (O.R.). “All of the problems I love to do include math, and the desire to solve them lends itself to O.R. applications,” she says.
Along the way, Lee’s trajectory took a turn toward medicine, which she says has been easily the most challenging part of her career. “It is difficult – emotionally and physically – having to deal with life-and-death situations,” Lee says.
How did this begin? Two months after becoming the first female faculty member in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, Lee attended a clinical seminar for medical research, where she was the only mathematician in the room. She had some thoughts and ideas she wanted to share during the seminar but was too afraid to speak up – so she didn’t.
“I think this was a test, and I might have failed in some sense,” Lee says. However, she emailed the medical director a week later to discuss her ideas, which turned into her first medical-focused O.R. project. This pioneering work won the 2007 INFORMS Edelman Award for using O.R. at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to develop sophisticated optimization modeling and computational techniques for real-time (intraoperative) treatment of prostate cancer. Read the full article
Business Insider, Oct. 10, 2018. This year's flu vaccine will probably provide more protection than last year's — here's why
Computational approaches can help fulfill the promise of creating a universal flu vaccine.
To be sure, if the 2017–18 flu season taught us anything, it’s that our conventional approach to vaccination can be easily overcome by a new or unpredictable virus strain.
In the ensuing public dialogue on this announcement, one question emerged that points to the real potential for the development of a universal flu vaccine, which is, “How might we use artificial intelligence and big data to help scientists advance our understanding?” That understanding, presumably, would be used to accelerate the creation of the universal flu vaccine.
A significant part of the answer is through the deployment of an operations research (OR) approach, combined with analytics, to better capture and process the vast amount of data that already exist and are continually generated. As patterns are quickly analyzed and better understood, we can narrow our focus on the right solutions that benefit specific segments of the population, while leading toward larger protections for everyone.
In recent years, researchers have partnered with leading universities and organizations across the country to make significant progress toward solutions. In 2015, a team of multidisciplinary investigators involving immunology, genomics and advanced analytics from the Emory Vaccine Center, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Georgia Institute of Technology, of which I am grateful and honored to have been a part, were awarded the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice for their groundbreaking work in predicting the immunity of a vaccine without exposing individuals to infection. Read the full article
Georgia Tech’s Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and the Pediatric Heart Network (PHN) led an interdisciplinary team named as one of six finalists for the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Franz Edelman Award. The Edelman Award is a prestigious honor given for achievement in the practice of advanced analytics and operations research. Read the full article
Strategic intervention to control infectious disease spread is of paramount importance in preventing a potential global epidemic. We develop a biological-behavioral-operational computer model to help policy makers choose the best intervention strategies to rapidly contain an infectious disease outbreak. The analysis covers the dynamics of disease transmission across different environments and social settings. The modeling system gives on-the-ground policymakers critical information about how to mitigate infection, monitor risk and trace disease during a pandemic. Read the full article
SARS, bird flu, H1N1, Ebola, and the recent Zika virus outbreak underscore the importance of preparedness and response to infectious disease. Zika poses unique challenges, since its association to birth defects and lack of prophylactic treatment currently threaten over 60 countries. During pandemics, scientists must race to investigate virus mechanisms to facilitate early detection and effective mitigation and develop both prophylactic and treatment regimens for global health security. Resources and policies for scientific, clinical, and technological advances must be aligned to facilitate rapid understanding of viruses and transmission mechanisms, clinical practice protocols, and effective containment and treatment of the ill to minimize human, societal, and economic impacts. This session features speakers with experience in scientific and policy work on infectious diseases, vaccine immunogenicity, clinical practice, and biological-behavioral-operational modeling for public health decision and policymaking. Speakers will share scientific advances in systems biology in immunogenicity, highlighting results in yellow fever, flu, and malaria; clinical challenges; and a computational modeling decision framework that couples disease modeling with intervention strategies to minimize disease propagation and optimize containment strategies. Read the full article
Now Lee, a member of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, has been selected to join the 13-member National Preparedness and Response Science Board (NPRSB), the federal committee that provides advice and guidance to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Read the full article
Scienmag: November 4, 2015. INFORMS Wagner Prize: Vaccine and gene match, vaccine effectiveness to CDC, GA Tech, Emory
Eva K. Lee is the winner of numerous INFORMS awards. She was named an INFORMS Fellow at the INFORMS annual meeting.
The ability to better predict how different individuals will respond to vaccination and to understand what best protects them from infection marks an important advance in developing next-generation vaccines. It facilitates the rapid design and evaluation of new and emerging vaccines. It also identifies individuals unlikely to benefit from the vaccine. Read the full article
CDC, Georgia Tech, Emory team up to win Wagner Prize
If the distinguished-looking gentleman in the Dos Equis beer commercials is the “most interesting man in the world” for his global exploits, then Eva K. Lee must be the “most interesting person in the O.R. world.” Her wide-ranging research and work on important big issues such as healthcare, biodefense, pandemics and emergency response are compelling since they impact so many people on a worldwide scale. Given the many disasters – natural and otherwise – that have afflicted the planet in recent years, Lee is certainly one of the busiest individuals in the O.R. universe. Whether serving in Fukushima, Japan, in the wake of the devastating 2011 earthquake, tsunami and near-nuclear disaster or advising the CDC as it responds to Ebola outbreaks in West Africa, Lee is either on call or onsite. Read the full article
She is Director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare, Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Distinguished Scholar in Health Systems, Health System Institute, Georgia Tech/Emory University. An interview with Eva Lee about mathematics, passion and planning. “You never have enough time. You have to make the time yourself.” Read the full article Passion is what drives you
Engineering.com: February 25, 2014. Georgia Tech School of Engineering Professor Fights Off Potential Pandemics
The panic associated with pandemics, aptly displayed in zombie-lore, is not too far from the truth. Often medical personnel are overrun with an illness they know little about, while the higher echelon frantically strategize and process big data as quickly as possible.
To assist these officials and limit the biological agent’s spread, Eva Lee, Director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare (CORMH), has created software to analyze the biological and demographic data. The software will even monitor social media for real time information on the outbreak. Read the full article
Firestorm: February 20, 2014. RealOpt - Helping Health Care Officials Make Important Decisions Quickly
Decision support capabilities for modeling and optimizing the public health infrastructure for all hazard emergency response: Exciting news on RealOpt© from AAAS - American Association for the Advancement of Science - Annual Meeting Your city has 48 hours to vaccinate every man, woman and child to prevent a dangerous pandemic. Where do you put the clinics, how many health care workers will you need and how do you get 2 million people to a finite number of emergency clinics? Read the full article
Fox News: February 17, 2014. Hours to save the world: New software program aims to stop deadly pandemic spread
It's a terrifying doomsday scenario: A novel infectious disease is sweeping through the world's population, and health officials have only a day or two to stop its deadly spread. While this may sound like the plot of a movie thriller, health officials argue that an event of this kind could become a reality sometime in the near future. According to researchers at the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) annual meeting in Chicago, new drug-resistant infectious diseases are appearing more frequently -- and are spreading faster than ever before. Read the full article
To help coordinate a rapid response to pandemics, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta has designed software that combines biological data on the pandemic with demographic data of the at-risk population so that health officials can develop a game plan to limit the pandemic's spread. The software also combs social media sites for real-time information on the pandemic and activities of the population. Eva Lee, director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, will talk about her emergency response software at the 2014 AAAS annual meeting in Chicago. Read the full article
International Innovation: May 2013. The Power of Technology: Transforming communication, education, business health and security through technological innovation. Optimising Decision Support, interviewed by Sophie Laggan
Lee's NSF RAPID award "Population Protection and Monitoring in Response to Radiological Incidents" was selected as a featured article by the International Innovation. The optimisation of emergency responses is fundamental when time and resources are limited. Here, Professor Eva Lee explains how her career in mathematics has given her the tools and knowhow to develop decision support systems that respond rapidly in times of disaster. Emergency response capability and medical preparedness are necessary features of any community or nation. In a world with an ever expanding populous, the number of those affected by natural disasters, terrorist attacks, as well as biological or chemical incidents continues to rise. Easing pressure on resources, optimisation of response capability and preparedness are features of paramount importance. Recent times have seen favourable adoption of nuclear power as an alternative energy source. However, as past nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and, more recently, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan have shown, the consequences of nuclear disasters can be devastating. Indeed, limited human and material resources, as well as inevitable time limitations are significant challenges when responding to such an emergency. However, its emergency response planning is a highly complex task. In addition to the difficult shorter term concerns of treating the injured, providing temporary shelters and distributing essential supplies, such events also necessitate the long term assessment of the population's health, local radiation levels and tracking displaced citizens. More problematically, such disasters invariably involve large populations. It is for these reasons that a team from Georgia Institute of Technology, led by Professor Eva Lee, focuses its research efforts into developing a system for the optimisation of public health emergency and response infrastructure.
The project The group's focus over the past two years has been on the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011, the Fukushima nuclear power plant suffered a series of failures which resulted in the greatest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. The enormity and singularity of the emergency operations which took place have offered the team a prime opportunity for data collection and analysis. First-hand accounts and in-depth analysis in Fukushima's wake have provided a wealth of knowledge and real-life data pertaining to radiological emergency response. Read the full article
Technology is being used more frequently to save lives, whether in surgery, to safeguard the elderly, or now, in the event of a disease outbreak during a catastrophe. Faced with the potential for mass casualties, emergency managers have to make critical decisions rapidly to assess the affected populations, determine the location and size of treatment distribution facilities, appropriately staff those facilities with adequately trained personnel, and provide them with needed medicines and supplies.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has partnered with a research team at Georgia Institute of Technology to produce a modeling tool to help health personnel with the challenge of mass dispensing of medical supplies in an emergency. The software, known as RealOpt (include our link), has decision support capabilities for modeling and optimizing the public health infrastructure for hazardous emergency response. It is designed for use in biological and radiological preparedness, for disease outbreaks planning and response, and for natural disasters planning. RealOpt helps officials plan for dispensing facilities locations, to ensure optimal facility staffing and allocation of resources, including routing of the population and dispensing modalities, according to Eva Lee, a professor at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, and director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Health Care at the school. Read the full article
Dr. Lee, a professor in School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, spoke to CTV News Channel on Sunday, March 11 2012, the one-year anniversary of a powerful earthquake and resulting tsunami that killed more than 19,000 people.
Lee's work focuses on emergency response to all hazards, including biological, nuclear, radiological and chemical incidents. She has worked in this area for more than 9 years, and has spent much of that time focusing on mass casualty mitigation, which involves rapid deployment of medical supplies and medical services, and rapid distribution of food, clean water, etc to affected populations.
Professor Eva Lee developed RealOpt, the next generation informatics-analytic system to aid pandemic and biowarfare public health mass dispensing and emergency planning. The system includes a radiological response module that facilities radiological screening and decontamination operations. Particularly pertinent to Japan is her work related to radiological response and population screening and decontamination. Read the full article
Science Newsline Technology: November 14, 2011. Systems Engineers Help Improve Flow of Visitors in Georgia Aquarium's New Dolphin Exhibit
More than 1,800 visitors can move smoothly through the Georgia Aquarium's new AT&T Dolphin Tales exhibit, entering and leaving through the same set of doors. Their experience is not by accident though -- before the exhibit opened, logistics experts at the Georgia Institute of Technology carefully studied how guests would move and recommended ways to improve their experiences while minimizing congestion. Read the full article
Nathaniel D Bastian was awarded a 2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.
He will be joining the Center as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Lee. Nathan is a distinguished honor graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, earning a B.S. degree in engineering management with honors. While at West Point, he was selected as a Fulbright U.S. Student Fellow in Engineering to the Netherlands, where he earned a M.Sc. degree in econometrics and operations research at Maastricht University. As a researcher at Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare, his primary research interests concern modeling and optimizing health service systems infrastructure. Particularly, Nathan seeks to develop and implement more effective decision-support systems for emergency medical and disaster response evacuation.
Dami Aladesanmi, a high-school intern to our center, was recently awarded the Georgia Tech Presidential Award as an incoming freshman for Fall 2011.
Dami is 16 years old and is currently a senior studying at the Center for Advanced Studies in Science, Math and Technology at Wheeler High School, in Marietta, GA. He is an aspiring doctor who is very interested in patient care, but also wants to engage in humanitarian work as well as research. He hopes to major in either Molecular Biology/Biochemistry or Biomedical Engineering. He is also curious about M.D./Ph.D opporunities. He enjoys chorus, his school's environmental club, and volunteering in middle school church service. He loves music, reading, writing, and surfing the Web.
Eva Lee, professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Healthcare, is leading the systems modeling and predictive analysis components of a study investigating the biochemical mechanisms behind cocaine and anti-retroviral drug interactions in mouse models of AIDS. Read the full article
Gatech ISYE News: August 24, 2010. Eva Lee Joins Interdisciplinary Team at Emory’s New Center for Systems Vaccinology.
Dr. Lee was invited to profile some of her research projects in medicine and healthcare in ORMS Today.
The article, which appeared in June 2010, was introduced by Peter Horner: "... Another ongoing story in the mainstream media is health care. If anything, the health care bill passed by Congress earlier this year only added fuel to the fire, and the hot topic of health care is sure to be an issue during the fall mid-term elections. However, as Eva Lee points out in her article "Advancing health care on multiple fronts" (page 20), Republicans and Democrats do agree on one thing: health care technology is crucial to improving any health care system."
Dr. Eva Lee was Interviewed by INFORMS, The Science of Better.
"When physicians choose radiation to battle cancer and cancerous tumors, they are fighting not just in three dimensions but four -- they must take into account not only the shape and size of the cancer but also the fourth dimension of time in modeling treatment. Hear operations researcher Eva K. Lee, Director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare at Georgia Tech explain how her O.R. innovations have helped create treatment plans that do a better job healing patients, avoiding radiation damage to healthy tissue, and saving a half billion dollars in related healthcare costs. And hear her reflect on improved homeland security modeling for biological events ranging from the outbreak of the H1N1 flu outbreak to bioterror attacks. By Barry List."
Center graduate student, Amanda Mejia, was selected to receive the 2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
The selection was based on outstanding abilities and accomplishments, as well as potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the U.S. science and engineering enterprise. Amanda is working on her PhD program under the supervision of Dr. Eva Lee. Part of her PhD research focuses on improving patient safety through medical alert management.
Georgia Tech Unveils Next Generation Software System to Aid Pandemic and Biowarfare Public Health Mass Dispensing and Emergency Planning.
Georgia Tech unveils next generation software system.
The Division of Strategic National Stockpile in the Coordinating Offcie for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unveils RealOpt-Regional, an interactive online software tool to aid in apportioning and dispensing medical countermeasures.
DSNS releases of RealOpt-Regional
Michael Radke, Coordinator of the Cities Readiness Initiative at the Portland Public Health and Human Services, used RealOpt to design the H1N1 flu clinic for the October 24 Sanford clinic event. "Planning for vaccination can be very complex,' recalled Mike. "we were able to process 300 vaccinations an hour (many being pediatric that cried, screamed, ran, and otherwise didn't enjoy the process)." "RealOpt provides us with efficient layout and operations foundation, thus allowing us to focus on the customer satisfaction part. Integrating the two offer us smooth operations that in turn help promoting the public relationship." Mike concluded.
News Releases at Emory University: January 13, 2009. Rules for Gene Silencing in Cancer Cells Identified
Human cancers from breast and lung have a common pattern of genes vulnerable to silencing by DNA methylation, researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have found. Read the full article
Study reveals how a highly successful vaccine triggers robust immune responses. Read the full article
Researchers have developed a multidisciplinary approach involving immunology, genomics and bioinformatics to predict the immunity of a vaccine without exposing individuals to infection. This approach addresses a long-standing challenge in the development of vaccines -- that of only being able to determine immunity or effectiveness long after vaccination and, often, only after being exposed to infection. Read the full article
1,385 people receive A booster hepatitis, Eva K. Lee, director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Healthcare at Georgia Institute of Technology, said Amherst's vaccination exercise was the first drive through event that administered a real vaccine to so many people. Read the full article
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering have developed a computer software system that allows flexible design of facility models, including various clinical models created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Read the full article
Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Mass Dispensing Work is profiled in OR/MS Today: Feb 2008. Doing Good with Good O.R -- O.R.'s Do-Gooders. National Biodefense -- In Case of Emergency
Saving lives as well as money, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center earns the Edelman with breakthrough modeling and computational techniques for treating prostate cancer. Read the full article
Video: Dr. Zaider's Summary Speech on Operations Research advances prostate cancer care.
INFORMS News: May 1, 2007. New Prostate Cancer Treatment Wins Operations Research Award for Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
Dr. Marco Zaider, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Prof. Eva K. Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology (right), receive the Edelman Award from INFORMS President Dr. Brenda Dietrich.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center won the Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research for work entitled “Operations Research Answers to Cancer Therapeutics.” The work improves the survival rate of patients with prostate cancer, reduces the side effects of treatment, and reduces costs to the health care system. Read the full article
Video Dr. Zaider’s summary speech Dr. Zaider’s acceptance speech
Dr. Eva K. Lee represented the AMS at the 12th annual Exhibition of the Coalition for National Science Funding(CNSF): June 7, 2006. AMS Sponsors Exhibit on Disease Prediction and Treatment Design at Capitol Hill Exhibition.
Dr. Eva K. Lee of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology represented the AMS at the 12th annual Exhibition of the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) held June 7, 2006 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Lee highlighted her work on "Disease Prediction and Treatment Design" by showing how mathematical programming, optimization and scientific computing can be used to process data on tumors in real-time, allowing design of optimal treatment over the entire treatment horizon. This can assist doctors in inflicting maximum damage to tumors, with minimum damage to healthy tissue. Read the full article
If metro Atlanta faced a biological threat from anthrax or avian flu, local public health officials, under federal guidelines, would have only 48 hours to dispense medicine to every resident.
Now they'll have a little help from a Georgia Tech professor who has created a program that takes the guesswork out of emergency preparedness and response. The software determines exactly where and how to set up emergency clinics and stations to dispense medicine in the most efficient way. It's being installed at health departments across Georgia, and 35 other states have asked for it. Read the full article
By Georgia Institute of Technology, Your city has 48 hours to vaccinate every man, woman and child to prevent a dangerous pandemic. Where do you put the clinics, how many health care workers will you need and how do you get 2 million people to a finite number of emergency clinics?
The logistics of handling all those panicked people, health care workers, vaccinations, clinics and forms are dizzying. And while health departments have plans in place, it’s very difficult to know how well those plans will perform when time is critical and the minutes needed to move patients to a large clinic or for a frightened patient to fill out a form could mean life or death for thousands or millions of people. Read the full article
ABC TV and News Report: Mar 9, 2005. Technology Improves Prostate Cancer Treatment.
Diagnostic Imaging Magazine: Feb 2005. Fusion of MR, ultrasound improves tumor target.
IE Magazine:Vol 37(2), Feb 2005. Emergency Response System for Bioterrorism and Pandemic Diseases.
State Health Watch: Jan 2005. Software helps plan infectious illness treatment.
Diagnostic Imaging: Jan 10, 2005. Combined metabolic and therapeutic imaging improves tumor therapy.
The Whitaker Foundation Research Highlights: Dec 1, 2004. Combined Technologies Mean More Targeted Radiation Therapy.
All Business: Nov 2004. Thwarting bioterrorism with simulation, computer program readies healthcare departments for infectious disease outbreaks.
Bioscience Innovations: Oct 2004. Emergency treatment response for bioterrorism and infectious disease outbreak.
Discoveries & Breakthroughs Inside Science TV news segment (produced by the American Institute of Physics and American Mathematical Society): Oct 2004. Curing Prostate Cancer.
18 MB video file -- 90-second TV news report broadcast through 2005 by subscribing local TV stations all over the United States.
Medical News Today: Oct 13, 2004. New system translates improved diagnostic information to target radiation at tumors.
ScienceDaily: Oct 13, 2004. New system translates improved diagnostic information to target radiation at tumors.
Medical Research News: Oct 12, 2004. Researchers bridge the gap between magnetic resonance spectroscopy and latest techniques for delivering precise doses of radiation to tumors.
Department of Homeland Security IAIP Directorate Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report: Sep 22, 2004. New Computer Program helps Health Departments Halt Outbreaks.
AScribe: Sep 2004. Georgia Tech Professor Designs Program to Help States Organize Bioterror Plans.
Program Installed in Georgia and to Be Tested by Health Departments in Several States.