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Pierskalla Award of the Health Applications Society of INFORMS

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

A complete entry consists of:

1. A single-page PDF cover letter containing the following:

Names and affiliations of all co-authors

Complete contact information of the corresponding author

The paper title

Appropriate keywords for the submitted paper

The filename of the cover letter should be CorrespondingAuthorLastName_CoverLetter.pdf.

2. A completely anonymous paper in PDF format that meets the following criteria:

Author(s) names or affiliations should not appear anywhere in the paper

At most 32 pages excluding the appendix but including tables, figures, and references. The paper must include all material necessary for judges to assess its technical correctness and confirm the validity of results.

The formatting standards for submitting a paper to major INFORMS journals (such as Management Science or Operations Research) apply.

The filename of the submitted paper should be ShortTitleOfThePaper.pdf.

The above two documents should be sent by the entrant as e-mail attachments to pierskalla2013comp@gmail.com.

The email’s subject line should be: 2013 INFORMS Pierskalla Award Submission. Complete entries must be received on or before Monday, July 1, 2013.

Any question(s) related to the competition should be sent by email to: pierskalla2013comp@gmail.com.

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

2013 committee members

Co-Chair: Vishal Ahuja
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago

Co-Chair: John Birge
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago

Request for Proposals: Association of University Programs in Health Administration Mini-Grants

In June 2012 at the AUPHA Annual Meeting, the AUPHA Foundation announced the availability of grants to support the advancement of healthcare management education.  Proposals are now being invited for resources that would serve either or both of the following purposes:

Proposals that inform the AUPHA Board of Directors about impending strategic issues that will significantly impact the future of healthcare management education (i.e, see the recent request regarding online teaching/distance education).

Proposals for curricular resources that are of critical need and reflect the dynamic nature of healthcare management education, such as student and program assessments, simulation exercises, teaching assignments, etc. that can be made available to all AUPHA members.

Proposal Development:

Proposals should be no more than three pages in length and contain the following components:

Background/Context: Briefly provide context for why this paper or project is needed.

Proposal Goal/Deliverable(s): Identify the deliverable(s) that will be provided upon completion.

Description of Project Plan: Your overall approach, including an outline of the project/paper and what you see as its main components/sections.

Estimated Completion Date: If the project is funded, when will the deliverables be complete?

Funding Amount Requested: Identify an amount, up to $3,000, that is requested to support development of the project/paper.

Author(s): Provide contact information, and a description of the authors’ academic preparation for addressing the issue or developing the resource, including references to any previous relevant publications or research.
Briefly describe why the author(s) is uniquely qualified to prepare this paper or develop this resource.

Recent CV: Attach a recent CV for all named authors (not included in the page count)

Budget:

The AUPHA Foundation will provide up to $3,000 stipend to the selected author or team of authors.  Once accepted, a payment of $1,000 will be provided upon receipt of the first draft.  The second and final payment of $2,000 will be remitted upon acceptance of the final product.

Eligibility:

AUPHA members are eligible to participate in the grant. Preference will be given to AUPHA Program Member faculty.

RFP Term:

Proposals will be accepted through September 1, 2013, and will be reviewed at the intervals specified below.  As funding is limited for the grants, the program may be terminated earlier than September 1, 2013 should all grants be awarded prior to that date.

Proposal Deadline & Submission Process:

Proposals will be reviewed by the Board of Directors for the AUPHA Foundation and the AUPHA.  All proposals must be submitted to Kristi Donovan at AUPHA via email at kdonovan@aupha.org no later than the following dates:

February 4, 2013, for review at March 11 AUPHA Board meeting
May 15, 2013, for review at June 19 AUPHA Board meeting
September 1, 2013 for review at the October, 2013 AUPHA Board Meeting

Review Criteria:

Proposals will be reviewed according to the following criteria:

Does the proposal address a critical need for healthcare management education?

Will the proposed deliverable meet the needs of a wide audience of AUPHA members?

Does the proposal represent the development of a new piece of work rather than a repurposing of existing materials?

Does the author(s) have a relevant background for development of the proposed materials?

Questions?

Contact Kristi Donovan via email or at 703.647.7962.