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Emergency responders to mass casualty incidents (MCIs) face critical time-sensitive decisions. This paper focuses on the allocation of victims to various hospitals given hospital and ambulance resource constraints, expected transportation times, and information concerning the differing nature and severity of wounds, including survival probabilities. Given this setting, we introduce a mixed-integer program called the Severity-Adjusted Victim Evacuation (SAVE) model. We then employ an experiment to compare SAVE with approaches currently in use. Relative to existing approaches, the experimental evidence indicates that SAVE increases the expected number of survivors between 36.5% and 69%, depending on how SAVE is implemented. ___________________________________________________ Dr. Matthew D. Dean is an Assistant Professor in the School of Business at the University of Southern Maine. Professor Dean received his Ph.D. in Operations & Information Management from the University of Connecticut and the majority of his research falls at the intersection of the decision sciences, information technology, and health care. His work has been published in Operations Research, Decision Support Systems, and Communications of the ACM, as well as in numerous conference proceedings. Professor Dean is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI). He teaches both the undergraduate and graduate level Operations Management courses, as well as the foundational statistics course. Before joining USM in the fall of 2010, Professor Dean was a faculty member at the University of New Orleans. Prior to his academic career, he worked at several telecommunications companies and an employee-owned company specializing in providing analytical solutions to complex problems. |
USM Professor Jeffrey Gramlich was appointed the first L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Chair in Accounting in the USM School of Business in 2003. His appointment was made possible by a $1 million gift from L.L. Bean, Inc., its board chair, Leon Gorman, his wife Lisa, Jim and Maureen Gorman, and Tom Gorman, who established the chair in memory of L.L. Bean CFO Lee Surace '73, '81, who died in March of 2001. Surace was chair of the USM School of Business' Advisory Council and was a frequent guest lecturer. The USM School of Business is accredited by the prestigious AACSB International. For students seeking the finest education and companies seeking the highest caliber talent, partnership, and educational opportunities, AACSB International accreditation is one of the most important affirmations of sustained quality in the word. For more information about School of Business programs, call 780-4020. |
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