May 2007

VITA

GORDON B. HAZEN

Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Northwestern University

CONTENTS

 

 

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CONTACT INFORMATION

 

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois 60208-3119

Phone: (847) 491-5673
E-mail: gbh305@lulu.it.northwestern.edu
FAX: (847)-491-8005

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 1980.
M.S., Statistics, Purdue University, 1975.
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Mathematics, University of North Dakota, 1971.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Decision analysis methodology, utility and preference theory, medical decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis of medical treatment decisions, normative expert systems in artificial intelligence, multiple criteria decision making.

AWARDS

Operations Research 2004 Meritorious Service Award. In recognition of timely and high-quality work as a Referee and Associate Editor for Operations Research during 2004 (September 2005).

Operations Research 2003 Meritorious Service Award. In recognition of timely and high-quality work as a Referee and Associate Editor for Operations Research during 2003 (August 2004).

Operations Research 2002 Meritorious Service Award. In recognition of timely and high-quality work as a Referee and Associate Editor for Operations Research during 2002 (October 2003).

Operations Research 2001 Meritorious Service Award. In recognition of timely and high-quality work as a Referee and Associate Editor for Operations Research during 2001 (September 2002)

Operations Research 2000 Meritorious Service Award. In recognition of timely and high-quality work as a Referee and Associate Editor for Operations Research during 2000.

1996 Publication Award from the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS received October 26, 1998 for the paper "Recursive Utility for Stochastic Trees" by G.B. Hazen and J.M. Pellissier, Operations Research 44 (1996) 788- 809.

Operations Research 1997 Meritorious Service Award. In recognition of timely and high-quality work as a Referee and Associate Editor for Operations Research during 1997.

Operations Research 1996 Meritorious Service Award. In recognition of timely and high-quality work as a Referee and Associate Editor for Operations Research during 1996.

Choice Under Uncertainty, edited by Peter C. Fishburn and Irving H. LaValle received the 1991 Decision Analysis Publication Award. I was one of the contributing authors.

Association for Student Government Faculty Honor Role, 1990-91.

PUBLICATIONS

SUBMITTED

1.   G.B. Hazen, Probability: An Introduction with Applications, 559 pages, in preparation for Duxbury Press.

PUBLISHED

2.   G.B. Hazen (2007), “Adding Extrinsic Goals to the QALY Model”, Decision Analysis 4 (1) 3–16.

3.   Schwartz A, Hazen G, Leifer A, Heckerling PS. “Life goals and health decisions - What will people live (or die) for?”, provisionally accepted November 2006 at Medical Decision Making.

4    G.B. Hazen and Min Huang (2006), “Parametric Sensitivity Analysis Using Large-Sample Approximate Bayesian Posterior Distributions”,. Decision Analysis 3 (4) 208-219.

5.   G.B. Hazen and Min Huang (2006), “Large-Sample Bayesian Posterior Distributions for Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis”, Medical Decision Making 26 (5), 512-534.

6.   G.B. Hazen (2004), “Multiattribute Structure for QALYs”, Decision Analysis 1 (4), 205-216.

7.   G.B. Hazen, “Dynamic Influence Diagrams: Applications to Medical Decision Modeling” (invited), in M.L. Brandeau,, F. Sainfort,, and W.P. Pierskalla, Eds., Operations Research and Health Care: A Handbook of Methods and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

8.   J.C. Felli and G.B. Hazen, “Javelin Diagrams: A Graphical Tool for Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis”, Decision Analysis 1 (2), 93–107.

9.   G.B. Hazen (2003), “A New Perspective on Multiple Internal Rates of Return”, The Engineering Economist 48, 31-51.

10. G.B. Hazen (2002) “Stochastic Trees and the StoTree Modeling Environment: Models and Software for Medical Decision Analysis”, Journal of Medical Systems 26, 399-413.

11. G.B. Hazen (2000), "Preference Factoring for Stochastic Trees", Management Science 46, 389-403.

12. G.B. Hazen and J. Sounderpandian (1999), "Expected-Utility Preference Reversals in Information Acquisition" Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 18, 125-136.

13. J.C. Felli and G.B. Hazen (1999), “Do Sensitivity Analyses Really Capture Problem Sensitivity? An Empirical Analysis Based on Information Value" Risk, Decision and Policy 4, 79-98.

14. J.C. Felli and G.B. Hazen (1998), "A Bayesian Approach to Sensitivity Analysis", Electronic Health Economics Letters Volume 2, No. 4, pp. 14-21.  Also in Health Economics Letters 8 (1999), 263-268.

15. G.B. Hazen, J.M. Pellissier and J. Sounderpandian (1998), "Stochastic tree models in medical decision making", Interfaces 48, 64-80.

16. J.C. Felli and G.B. Hazen (1998), "Sensitivity Analysis and the Expected Value of Perfect Information", Medical Decision Making 18, 95-109.  (Erratum in volume 23 (1) p. 97, 2003)

17. G.B. Hazen and J.M. Pellissier (1996), "Recursive Utility for Stochastic Trees", Operations Research 44, 788-809.

18. J.M. Pellissier, G.B. Hazen and R.W. Chang (1996), "A Continuous-Risk Decision Analysis of Total Hip Replacement", Journal of the Operations Research Society 47, 776-793.

19. J.C. Felli and G.B. Hazen (1996), "Information Value and Decision Sensitivity", Annual Review of Communications 49, 243-254.

20. R.W. Chang, J.M. Pellissier and G.B. Hazen (1996), "A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Total Hip Arthroplasty for Osteoarthritis of the Hip", Journal of the American Medical Association 275, 858-865.

21. J.M. Pellissier and G.B. Hazen (1994), "Implementation of Continuous-Risk Utility Assessment: The Total Hip Replacement Decision", Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 28, 251-276.

22. G.B. Hazen (1993), "Factored Stochastic Trees: A Tool for Solving Complex Temporal Medical Decision Models," Medical Decision Making 13, 227-236.

23. R.F. Bordley and G.B. Hazen (1992), "Nonlinear Utility Models Arising from Unmodelled Small World Correlations," Management Science 38, 1010-1017.

24. G.B. Hazen (1992), "Stochastic Trees: A New Technique for Temporal Medical Decision Modeling," Medical Decision Making 12, 163-178.

25. G.B. Hazen, W.J. Hopp and J.M. Pellissier (1991), "Continuous-Risk Utility Assessment in Medical Decision Making," Medical Decision Making 11, 294-304.

26. R.F. Bordley and G.B. Hazen (1991), "SSB and Weighted Linear Utility as Expected Utility with Suspicion," Management Science 37, 396-408.

27. G.B. Hazen and J.S. Lee (1990), "Ambiguity Aversion in the Small and in the Large for Weighted Linear Utility,"Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 4, 177-212.

28. G.B. Hazen (1990), "Murder of the Likelihood Principle: A Comment," Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 3, 87-89.

29. G.B. Hazen (1989), "Ambiguity Aversion and Ambiguity Content in Decision Making Under Uncertainty," Annals of Operations Research 19, 415-434.

30. G.B. Hazen (1988), "Differential Characterizations of Nonconical Dominance in Multiple Objective Decision Making," Mathematics of Operations Research 13, 1 (Feb) 174-189.

31. G.B. Hazen (1987a), "Subjectively Weighted Linear Utility," Theory and Decision 23, 261-282.

32. G.B. Hazen (1987b), "Does Rolling Back Decision Trees Really Require the Independence Axiom?," Management Science 33, 6 (June) 807-809.

33. G.B. Hazen (1986), "Partial Information, Dominance, and Potential Optimality in Multiattribute Utility Theory," Operations Research 34 2 (Mar) 296-310.

34. G.B. Hazen and T.L. Morin (1984), "Steepest Ascent Algorithms for Nonconical Multiple Objective Programming," Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 100, 1 (Apr) 188-221.

35. G.B. Hazen and T. L. Morin (1983) "Nonconical Optimality Conditions: Some Additional Results", Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 41, 4 (Dec) 619-623.

36. G.B. Hazen (1983), "Preference Convex Unanimity in Multiple Criteria Decision Making," Mathematics of Operations Research 8, 4 (Nov) 505-516.

37. G.B. Hazen and with T. L. Morin (1983), "Optimality Conditions in Nonconical Multiple Objective Programming," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 40, 1 (May) 25-60.

38. V. Akileswaren, G.B. Hazen and T. L. Morin (1983), "Complexity of the Project Sequencing Problem," Operations Research 31, 4 (July), 772-778.

39. G.B. Hazen and A. A. B. Pritsker (1980), "Formulas for the Variance of the Sample Mean in Finite State Markov Processes," Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 12, 25-40.

PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

40. G.B. Hazen and J. Sounderpandian (1999), "Preference Summaries for Stochastic Tree Rollback", pp. 109-120 in Beliefs, Interactions and Preferences in Decision Making edited by Mark J. Machina and Bertrand Munier, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

41. G.B. Hazen and J. Sounderpandian (1997), "Stochastic Trees and Medical Decision Making", in Economic and Environmental Risk and Uncertainty: New Models and Methods, Robert Nau, Erik Gronn, Mark Machina, Olvar Bergland (eds), Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

42. R.F. Bordley and G.B. Hazen (1992b), "Intertemporal Risk-Aversion and Calibration Uncertainty May Explain Violations of the Independence Axiom," in Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty: New Models and Empirical Findings, J. Geweke (Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

43. G.B. Hazen (1992b), "Decision Versus Policy: An Expected Utility Resolution of the Ellsberg Paradox," in Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty : New Models and Empirical Findings, J. Geweke (Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

44. R.W. Chang, G.B. Hazen, J. Felli, J.T. Schousboe, and L.M. Manheim (1992) "The Economic Implications of the Prevention of Gouty Attacks", Clin Res 40: 371A.

45. G.B. Hazen (1985), "Partial Preference Information and First Order Differential Optimality: An Illustration," pp. 153-157 in Proceedings of the VIth International Conference on Multiple-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), Y. Y. Haimes and V. Chankong (Eds.), Springer-Verlag.

46. G.B. Hazen, T. L. Morin and A. H. El-Abiad (1980), "Pathology of Generation Planning Evaluation Indices," abstract in IEEE Transactions PAS 99, p. 1319; full paper in IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting 1980, Text of "A" Papers, No. A 80 017-4, pp. 1-7.

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editorial Board, Decision Analysis (2003 to present)

Decision Analysis Area Editor Operations Research (2006 to present)

Associate Editor for Operations Research. (1994 through 2005).

Associate Editor for Naval Research Logistics (1999 through 2005)

Editorial Board, Medical Decision Making (1999 - 2005)

Associate Editor for Management Science (1989-94).

Panel Member, Decision Risk and Management Science Program, National Science Foundation, 1994-97.

Council member, Special Interest Group on Decision Analysis, Operations Research Society of America, 1990-93.

Referee, Management Science, Operations Research, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man , and Cybernetics, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Opsearch, Mathematics of Operations Research, National Science Foundation.

Session Chair "Model Structuring and Sensitivity", (Decision Analysis Cluster) ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Detroit, Fall 1994.

Administrative chair, TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Chicago, May 1993.

Session Cluster Organizer for the Decision Analysis Special Interest Group, TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Chicago, May 1993: Organized 10 sessions.

Session Chair, Decision Analysis Cluster, TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Nashville, May 1991.

Associate Editor for Naval Research Logistics Quarterly 35 (1988) 6 (Dec) special issue on Multiple Criteria Decision Making.

Session Cluster Organizer for Multicriteria Optimization, ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, St. Louis, November 1987.

Session Chair, Multicriteria Decision Making, TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, New Orleans, May 1987.

Session Chair, Multi-Criteria Optimization, TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Chicago, April 1983.

Session Chair, Multi-Objective Programming, TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, April 1982.

Member, Operations Research Society of America, The Institute of Management Sciences, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Society for Medical Decision Making, American Statistical Association.

LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

"Life goals and health decisions - what will people live (or die) for?"  Schwartz A, Leifer, A, Hazen G, Heckerling, P.  Society for Judgment and Decision Making annual meeting, Houston, TX, November 2006.

“Extending Medical Preference Models to Include Lifetime Goals”, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 2006.

“Panel Discussion: Decision Analysis: Foundations in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering”, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 2006.

“Population Equilibrium Methods for Medical Decision Making”, presented by Min Huang, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 2006.

“Adding Extrinsic Goals to the QALY Model: Incorporating Goals That Are Not Time Modulated”,  Chicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics – Health Economics Workshop, October 2006.

“Markov Chain Population Models for Medical Decision Making”, presented by Min Huang, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2005.

“Equilibrium Population Methods for Markov Models of Health Interventions", with Min Huang, 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, San Francisco, October 2005.

“A Recipe For Incoherence: Averaging Time-Tradeoff Or Standard-Gamble Utilities Across Health Attributes", 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Atlanta, October 2004.

“Bayesian Posterior Distributions For Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis", 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Atlanta, October 2004.

“Parametric Sensitivity Analysis For Cancer Survival Models Using Large-Sample Normal Approximations To The Bayesian Posterior Distribution", 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Atlanta, October 2004.

“Extending The Qaly Model To Incorporate Goals That Are Not Time Modulated", Plenary Session, 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Atlanta, October 2004.

“Multiattribute Structure for QALYs”, Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 2003.

"Factored Stochastic Tree Modeling for Medical Decision Making", G.B. Hazen, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (invited), March 2003.

“StoTree: Excel-based software for formulating and solving stochastic tree models for medical decision analysis”, G.B. Hazen, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (invited workshop), March 2003.

“Stochastic Tree Modeling for Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness”, (short course) G.B. Hazen, Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting, October 2002.

“Ovarian Cancer Screening in Average and High-Risk Women: Effectiveness Accounting for Quality of Life”, G.B. Hazen, D.G. Dobrez, Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting, October 2001.  Abstract in Medical Decision Making 21 (2001), 523.

"Stochastic Trees in Medical Decision Modeling", (invited) INFORMS Salt Lake City, May 2000.

"Decision Analysis - Where Do we Go From Here?", (invited) panel discussion, INFORMS Philadelphia, November 1999.

"Patient Values in the Treatment of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ", GB Hazen, M Morrow, ER Venta, Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, October 1999.

"Factored stochastic tree modeling for medical decision making", GB Hazen, JM Pellissier and RW Chang, Harvard School of Public Health (invited), March 1999.

"A Cost-Effectiveness Modeling Effort For Arthritic Joint Replacement Decisions", GB Hazen, JM Pellissier, RW Chang, Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting, Boston, October 1998.

"Effects of Future Costs on the Cost-Effectiveness of Life Extension and Quality of Life Improvement Among the Elderly", D. Meltzer, G. Hazen, M. Johanesson, I. Abdalla, R. Chang, A. Elstein, A. Schwartz. , Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting, Boston, October 1998.

"History-Remembering Utility Rollback for Stochastic Tree Models", G.B. Hazen and Jay Sounderpandian, INFORMS Dallas, October 1997.

"State-Trajectory Preference Summaries for Stochastic Tree Rollback", G.B. Hazen and J. Sounderpandian, 8th International Conference on the Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory, Mons, Belgium, July 1997.

"Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis", George Mason University, April 16, 1997.

"Why Not Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis?", G.B. Hazen, 35th Annual Bayesian Research Conference, Los Angeles, February 20-22, 1997.

"Stochastic Tree Modeling", G.B. Hazen, J. Sounderpandian and J.M Pellissier, INFORMS Atlanta, November 1996.

"Do Sensitivity Analyses Really Capture Problem Sensitivity: An Empirical Analysis Based on Information Value", J.C. Felli and G.B. Hazen, INFORMS Atlanta, November 1996.

"Indifference Need Not Determine One's Risk Attitude Parameter", INFORMS New Orleans, October 1995.

"The Implications Of New Technology On The Cost-Effectiveness Of Total Joint Replacement" with James M. Pellissier and Rowland W. Chang, Society for Medical Decision Making annual meeting, Tempe, Arizona, October 1995.

"Expected value of perfect information as a sensitivity analysis tool", with James Felli, TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Detroit, October 1994.

"Coxian mortality factors for stochastic tree modeling" with James M. Pellissier, Society for Medical Decision Making annual meeting, Cleveland, October 1994.

"Risk-Sensitive Stochastic Tree Models For Temporal Medical Decisions", TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Boston, April 1994.

"Stochastic Trees and Medical Decision Making", FUR VII, Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway, June 1994.

"Recursive Utility for Stochastic Trees," Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, October 1993.

"A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of Total Hip Arthroplasty For Osteoarithritis Of The Hip", with Rowland W. Chang and James M. Pellissier, Clinical Research 41 No. 235A, National Meeting, Washington D.C., April 1993.

"Recursive Utility for Stochastic Trees," TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Chicago, May 1993.

"Aggregation Error in Fault Tree Modeling," ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, San Francisco, November 1992.

"Stochastic Trees and Stochastic Factoring in Medical Decision Modeling," Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting, Rochester, October 1991.

"Ambiguity Aversion as Risk Aversion in a Policy Setting," TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Nashville, May 1991.

"Risk-Sensitive Markov Decision Processes," TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Nashville, May 1991.

"Decision versus Policy: An Expected Utility Resolution of the Ellsberg Paradox," Fifth International Conference on the Foundation and Applications of Utility, Risk, and Decision Theories, Duke University, June 1990.

"SSB and Weighted Linear Utility as Expected Utility with Suspicion," with Robert F. Bordley, Fifth International Conference on the Foundation and Applications of Utility, Risk, and Decision Theories, Duke University, June 1990.

"Intertemporal Risk-Aversion and Calibration Uncertainty May Explain Independence Violations," with Robert F. Bordley, Fifth International Conference on the Foundation and Applications of Utility, Risk, and Decision Theories, Duke University, June 1990.

"Local Ambiguity Attitude and Increasing Ambiguity Aversion," TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Las Vegas, May 1990.

"EU Theory and Calibration Uncertainty Imply Elation/Disappointment", with Robert F. Bordley, TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Las Vegas, May 1990.

"SSB and Weighted Linear Utility with Suspicion," with Robert F. Bordley, Southern Economic Association, Orlando, Florida, November 1989.

"SSB and Weighted Linear Utility as Expected Utility with Suspicion," with Robert Bordley, Seminar, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, April 26, 1989.

"Comparing Ambiguity Attitudes in Decision Making Under Uncertainty," Seminar, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, October 12, 1988.

"Comparing Ambiguity Attitudes in Decision Making Under Uncertainty," ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Denver, October 1988.

"Subjectively Weighted Linear Utility," TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, New Orleans, May 1987.

"The Economic Implications of the Prevention of Gouty Attacks with Allopurinal," with J. T. Schousboe, L. M. Manheim, and R. W. Chang, Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Chicago, October 1986.

"The Economic Implications of the Prevention of Gouty Attacks with Probenecid or Allopurinal," with J. T. Schousboe, L. M. Manheim, and R. W. Chang, American Rheumatism Association Regional Meeting, Chicago, October 1986.

"Dominance and Potential Optimality when Utility is Partially known," TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Los Angeles, April 1986.

"Concave Dominance, Potential Optimality and Proper Efficiency," TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Los Angeles, April 1986.

"Quasiconcave Dominance: Properties and Uses," TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Boston, April 1985.

"Differential Characterizations of Nonconical Dominance in Multiple Objective Decision Making," Sixth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Cleveland, Ohio, June 1984.

"Partial Information, Dominance, and Potential Optimality in Multiattribute Utility Theory," ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Orlando, November 1983.

"Kuhn-Tucker Conditions in Conical and Nonconical Multiple Objective Programming," ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, San Diego, October 1982.

"Optimality Conditions in Nonconical Multiple Objective Optimization," with T. L. Morin, ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Houston, October 1981.

"Differential Optimality for Unanimity Orders in Multicriteria Decision Making," TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Chicago, April 1983.

"Steepest Ascent Algorithms for Nonconical Multiple Objective Programming," with T. L. Morin, TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, April 1982.

"Dynamic Programming Software," with T. L. Morin, TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, April 1982.

"Informational Bounding: A General Approach to the Multicriteria Decision Problem," with T. L. Morin, ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Colorado Springs, November 1980.

"Dynamic Programming Software Packages," with T. L. Morin, TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 1980.

"Pathology of Generation Planning Evaluation Indices," with A. H. El-Abiad and T. L. Morin, IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, December 1979.

"Formulas for the Variance of the Sample Mean in Finite State Markov Processes," 1977 Winter Simulation Conference, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

SPONSORED RESEARCH

“Collaborative Research: Adding Extrinsic Goals to the QALY Model”, National Science Foundation, July 2005 - June 2008, $165,630.

Co-PI, “Measurement & Use of Utilities in Ovarian Cancer CEA”, National Cancer Institute, August 2001 - July 2004, $1,237,448 (20% time year 1, 10% years 2 and 3).

Gordon B. Hazen and Monica Morrow, Co-PI, “A Continuous-Risk Decision Aid for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ”, Illinois Department of Public Health, July 2000 - June 2001, $71,100.

"A Decision Analysis of the Treatment of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ", with Enrique R. Venta, Loyola University Chicago. Funds from the Lynn Sage Comprehensive Breast Center, Northwestern University Medical School, September 1996 - August 1997, $25,000.

"A Unified Information-Value Approach to Sensitivity Analysis," Decision, Risk and Management Science Program of the National Science Foundation, Grant No. SBR-9515161, April 1996 - March 1999, $195,611.

"Total Hip Arthroplasty Decision making: Risk Attitudes and Values of Patients, Rheumatologists and Orthopaedic Surgeons", with Rowland W. Chang and James M. Pellissier, Illinois Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, September 1994 - August 1995 (extended to August 1996), $20,000.

"Collaborative Research: Bayesian Aggregation Error in Fault Trees," Decision, Risk and Management Science Program of the National Science Foundation, Grant No. SES-9112854, August 1992 - July 1994, $69,924.

"Stochastic Trees: Modeling and Preference Applications to Medical Decision Making," Decision, Risk and Management Science Program of the National Science Foundation, Grant No. SES-9112854, August 1991 - July 1993, $104,388.

"Polymyalgia Rheumatica: A Decision Analytic Approach," with Rowland Chang, M.D., Illinois Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, January 1984 - December 1985, $10,000.

"Research Initiation: Deterministic Dominance Approaches for Multiple Objective Optimization," National Science Foundation Grant No. ECS-8105965, June 1981 through November 1983, $45,682.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

Min Huang, Ph.D, “Markov Chain Population Models in Medical Decision Making”, qualifying exam passed October 2005.

Chen-Wen Shen, Ph.D. December 2002, “The Marginalization Method for Belief Updating in Bayesian Networks.”

James Felli, Ph.D. August 1995, "The Expected Value of Perfect Information as an Alternative to Sensitivity Analysis in Multiparametric Decision Problems." (now Assistant Professor, Defense Resources Management Institute, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California).

James Pellissier, Ph.D. May 1991, "Risk Assessment in Medical Markov Models." (formerly Associate Professor, Loyola Business School, Loyola University Chicago; now Medical Research Analyst, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania).

Roberto de la Llata, Ph.D. August 1988, "Multiobjective Linear Programming and Admissibility." (now Professor, Ingeniería Industrial y Textil, Escuela de Ingeniería, Universidad de las Américas, San Andrés Cholula, Puebla 72820, México.)

Jia-Sheng Lee, Ph.D. December 1987, "Decision Analysis with Ambiguous Probability."

Susan Hook, M.S. December 1987, "Decision Analytic Applications of the SWLU model."

 

COURSES TAUGHT

Northwestern University

IE 202             Probability (1980,1983-1999, 2001, 2003, 2004,2005)
IE 303             Statistics (1980-1984,1986,1987, 1994)
IE 306             Decision Analysis (1987,1990-1994, 1996, 1998, 2000)
IE 313             Deterministic Models in Operations Research (1985)
IE 315             Stochastic Models in Operations Research (1987-1993, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005)
IE 391-1          Senior Design Project (1995-2003)
IE D30            Systems Analysis (1980-1982)
IE 445             Decision and Risk Analysis (alternate years, 1983 to present)
IE 448             Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems (1989,1991,1993, 1995, 1997, 1999)
IE D56            Dynamic Programming (1980,1982,1984-1986,1991)
IE 460-1          Stochastic Processes (1992)
IE D74            Multidimensional Measurement and Evaluation (1980)
IE D75            Multiple Criteria Decision Making (1981,1985,1987)
IE 488             Economics and Decision Analysis (1999-present)

University of Michigan

IOE460           Decision Analysis (1988)

UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES

Office of Research Integrity Inquiry Committee 2007
IEMS Graduate Committee Chair, 2003 - present.
Departmental representative, McCormick Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2002 - 2003
IEMS Graduate Committee, 2002 - present
Ad Hoc committees, 2000, 2001, 2002
Technological Institute Safety Committee, 1999 - present
IEMS Undergraduate Committee, 2001-present
IEMS Faculty Advisor, ETH Zurich study abroad program
Chair, IEMS Recruiting Committee, 2000
Faculty Coordinator, IEMS Honors Program, 2001-present.
Faculty Advisor, IIE Student Chapter, 2000-2001.
Member, McCormick Junior Faculty Review Committee, 1998 - 2001
Member, IEMS Recruiting Committee, 1998
Coordinator, IEMS Department Seminar Series, 1994-98
Member, Program Review Committee, IEMS Department, 1996-97
Member, UFRPDAP (University Faculty for Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Denial          Appeal Panel), 1994-1997
Member, Graduate Committee, IE/MS Department, 1980-1988
Member, Center for Health Services and Policy Research, 1984-present
Member, Teaching Awards Committee 1982,1983.
Chair, Recruiting Committee, IE/MS Department, 1989.
Member, Science-Engineering Library Faculty Advisory Committee, 1990-92, 1996