{"id":17,"date":"2017-09-28T15:48:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T15:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ise.ufl.edu\/alvarado\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2024-09-25T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T19:53:07","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/alvarado\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Research interests<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Decision-making under uncertainty by developing methods, and algorithms for healthcare systems engineering<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Methodologies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Mean-Risk Stochastic Integer Programming<\/li>\n<li>Multi-method Simulation (agent-based, discrete-event, systems dynamics)<\/li>\n<li>Machine Learning<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Applications<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Health Policy Models\n<ol>\n<li>Hospital Readmissions, Lung Cancer Screening, Healthcare Cost Transparency, Health Insurance Decision-Making<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Outpatient and Inpatient Scheduling and Flow\n<ul>\n<li>Appointment scheduling for chemotherapy, skin cancer, counseling<\/li>\n<li>Inpatient discharge planning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural Labor Trafficking<\/li>\n<li>Flipped Classroom Methods for Generation Z Engineering Students<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Research Activity<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Co-PI. \u201cThe benefits and harms of lung cancer screening in Florida\u201d, Jan 2020-Dec 2023, <strong>National Institutes of Health: National Cancer Institute<\/strong>, R01 Award, PI: Jiang Bian, $1,467,264, (Alvarado $135,957).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHuman trafficking demand reduction strategies through network analytics and simulation modeling\u201d, Jan 2020 \u2013 Oct 2020, <strong>UF Foundation<\/strong>, Seed Grant, $10,000 (Alvarado: $5,000).<\/li>\n<li>Co-PI. \u201cTransforming the delivery of educational content for generation Z engineering students\u201d, Mar 2020 \u2013 Dec 2020, <strong>UF Foundation<\/strong>, Seed Grant, PI: Katie Basinger, $10,000 (Alvarado: $5,000).<\/li>\n<li>Co-PI. \u201cImplementation strategies to address social determinants of health and social needs (phase one)\u201d, Dec 2019 \u2013 June 2020, <strong>UF CTSI<\/strong>, Seed Grant, PI: Betsy Shenkman, $72,690.65 (Alvarado: $16,369).<\/li>\n<li>Personnel &#8211; Postdoc. \u201cBenchmarking Study of Point of Use (POU) Systems for VA\u201d, <strong>Veteran\u2019s Affairs Center for Applied Systems Engineering (VA-CASE)<\/strong><em>, <\/em>PI: Mark Lawley (TAMU), July 2017 \u2013 Dec 2016, $60,000.<\/li>\n<li>Personnel &#8211; Postdoc. \u201cBenchmarking Study of Enterprise Systems for the VA\u2019s Enterprise Supply Chain\u201d, <strong>Veteran\u2019s Affairs Center for Applied Systems Engineering (VA-CASE)<\/strong>, PI: Mark Lawley (TAMU), Jan 2016 \u2013 June 2016, $60,000.<\/li>\n<li>Personnel \u2013 Postdoc. \u201cDiabetes Education and Wellness through Faith-Based Organizations in Texas\u201d, <strong>PCORI, <\/strong>Tier I, PI: M. Lawley (TAMU), Co-PI: H. Kum (TAMU Health Science), May 2015- Jan 2016, $15,000 (Alvarado: $10,000).<\/li>\n<li>Personnel \u2013 Postdoc. \u201cStakeholder-Driven System Definition of a Smart Diabetes Management System\u201d, <strong>Area 41 Challenge Grant via TAMU<\/strong>, PI: M. Lawley (TAMU), 2015-2016, $50,000.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities<\/h2>\n<p>For undergraduates looking for summer research experience, please see my current list of project opportunities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/graduate\/about-us\/undergraduate-research\/research-projects\/industrial-and-systems-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research interests Decision-making under uncertainty by developing methods, and algorithms for healthcare systems engineering Methodologies Mean-Risk Stochastic Integer Programming Multi-method Simulation (agent-based, discrete-event, systems dynamics) Machine Learning Applications Health Policy Models Hospital Readmissions, Lung Cancer Screening, Healthcare Cost Transparency, Health Insurance Decision-Making Outpatient and Inpatient Scheduling and Flow Appointment scheduling for chemotherapy, skin cancer, counseling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1114,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/alvarado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/alvarado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/alvarado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/alvarado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/alvarado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/alvarado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/alvarado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/alvarado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}