in collaboration with
ACM/SIGSIM

April 14 - 17, 2008

Crowne Plaza Ottawa Hotel
Ottawa, Canada

Group Code for Reservations: SMS

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General Chair
Dr. Hassan Rajaei
Bowling Green State University, USA
 

Vice General Chair
Gabriel A. Wainer
Carleton University,  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  

Program Chair
Michael J. Chinni
US ARMY - RDECOM - ARDEC
    

Tutorials Chair
Prof. Axel Lehmann
Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
  

Poster Chair
Abdolreza Abhari
Ryerson University,  Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  

Awards Chair
Dr. Maurice J. Ades
Westinghouse Savannah River Company, USA
  

Exhibits & Publicity Chair
David Long
SAGETEA Group
  

Sponsored by
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
P.O. Box 17900
San Diego, CA  92177-7900
Tel: 858-277-3888
Fax: 858-277-3930
E-mail: scs@scs.org
http://www.scs.org

in collaboration with
ACM/SIGSIM

Spring Simulation Multiconference 2008 (SpringSim'08)

17th Annual International Conference on Health Sciences Simulation (ICHSS)

Final Program

General Co-Chairs:

• James G. Anderson, Purdue University
• Godefridus G. van Merode, Universiteit Maastricht

Program-at-a-Glance:

• Plenary Session
• Session 1: Health Policy
  • Chair: TBD
• Session 2: Health Services I
  • Chair: George W. Pasdirtz, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Session 3: Health Services II
  • Chair: TBD
• Session 4: Health Services III
  • Chair: TBD
• Session 5: Modeling Epidemics
  • Chair: K. Krishnan, Universite de Montreal
• Session 6: Biomedical Applications
  • Chair: Mailen Kootsey
• Session 7: Pharmacometric Applications
  • Chair: Karl Thomaseth, National Research Council, Padua, Italy
• Session 8: Biomedical Applications
  • Chair: Bernhard Quatember

• Monday April 14, 10:30 - 12:00; Plenary Session
   
• Monday April 14 1:30 - 3:00; Session 1: Health Policy
  Chair: TBD
  • Technology and the Health Care Quadrilemma: A Test
    • George Pasdirtz
  • Combining Two Forms of Simulation to Predict the Potential Impact of Interface Design Upon Technology-Induced Error in Healthcare
    • Andre Kushniruk, Elizabeth Borcki, James G. Anderson, Marilyn M. Anderson
       
• Monday April 14, 3:30 - 5:00; Session 2: Health Services I
  Chair: George W. Pasdirtz, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Using Simulation to Improve Outpatient Appointment System with Minimum Change
    • Jiahua LI, Yue ZHOU and Fukuya ISHINO
  • Maximizing Cardiac Surgery Throughput at a Major Hospital
    • Carter Price, Timothy Babineau, Bruce Golden, Bartley Griffith and Edward Wasil
       
• Tuesday April 15, 8:30 - 10:00; Session 3: Health Services II
  Chair: TBD
  • Modeling Implementation Strategies By Simulation
    • Sabrina Ramwadhdoebe, Godefridus Van Merode, Ralph Sakkers and Erik Buskens
  • Conflict and Burnout among Nursing Staff in the Long Term Care Setting
    • Kathleen Abrahamson, James G. Anderson, Marilyn M. Anderson, Jill Sutter
       
• Tuesday April 15, 10:30 - 12:00; Session 4: Health Services III
  Chair: TBD
  • Case Mix and Acute Care System Design
    • Johanna J.W. Molema and Godefridus G. Van Merode
  • Developing a Reusable Simulation to Improve Access to Diagnostic Imaging Clinics in Nova Scotia
    • Sean Sangster and John T. Blake
       
• Tuesday April 15, 1:30 - 3:00; Session 5: Modeling Epidemics
  Chair: K. Krishnan, Universite de Montreal
  • Modeling and Simulating a Disease Outbreak by Learning a Contagion Parameter-based Model
    • John B Oommen and Dragos Calitoiu
  • EpiSimS Simulation of a Multi-Component Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
    • Susan Mniszewski, Sara Del Valle, Phillip Stroud, Jane Riese and Stephen Sydoriak
       
• Tuesday April 15, 3:30 - 5:00; Session 6: Biomedical Applications
  Chair: Mailen Kootsey
  • Evaluation of Competing Windkessel Models for Assessing Vascular Characteristics from Non-invasive Blood Pressure Recordings
    • Karl Thomaseth
  • Patient-specific Modelling and Simulation of Coronary Haemodynamics
    • Bernhard Quatember
       
• Wednesday April 16, 8:30 - 10:00; Session 7: Pharmacometric Applications
  Chair: Karl Thomaseth, National Research Council, Padua, Italy
  • A physiologically-based algorithm for predicting internal dose of inhaled toluene: applications for high dose to low dose and rodent to human extrapolations
    • Sastry Isukapalli, Karine Price, Panos Georgopoulos and Kannan Krishnan
  • Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation of Biomonitoring in Humans: Application to Biomarkers of Chronic Exposure to Alkyl Benzenes in the Environment
    • Thomas Peyret and Kannan Krishnan
       
• Wednesday April 16, 10:30 - 12:00; Session 8: Biomedical Applications
  Chair: Bernhard Quatember
  • Large Scale Modeling of the Piriform Cortex for Analyzing Antiepileptic Effects
    • Dragos Calitoiu, Doron Nussbaum and B. John Oommen
  • Rapid Construction of Simulation Driven Animations in Web Pages Using NLX
    • Mailen Kootsey