Esmaeil Bahalkeh
Dr. Esmaeil Bahalkeh is an Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy at University of New Hampshire.
His research interests lie generally in the fields of Healthcare Operations Management, Health Analytics, and Health Policy where he utilizes computer simulation, machine learning, and applied statistics to address pressing issues in health systems related to integration, patient access, capacity management, and flow.
He teaches several interdisciplinary courses such as Health Analytics, Applied Machine Learning in Healthcare, AI and Deep Learning in Healthcare, and Healthcare Operations Management across different programs including Doctoral Nursing, Master of Health Data Science, and undergraduate Health Management and Policy.
Research Interests
- Access to Health Services/Medical Care
- Computer Simulation/Modeling
- Data Analysis
- Data Mining
- Forecasting - Trends/Statistical Analysis
- Health Informatics
- Health Services Delivery
- Medical Informatics
Courses Taught
- 540: Stats for Health Professionals
- 712: Health Analytics
- 805: Machine Learning in Healthcare
Selected Publications
Bahalkeh, E., Hasan, I., & Yih, Y. (2022). The relationship between Intensive Care Unit Length of Stay information and its operational performance. Healthcare Analytics, 2, 100036. doi:10.1016/j.health.2022.100036
Hasan, I., Bahalkeh, E., & Yih, Y. (2020). Evaluating intensive care unit admission and discharge policies using a discrete event simulation model. SIMULATION-TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY FOR MODELING AND SIMULATION INTERNATIONAL, 96(6), 501-518. doi:10.1177/0037549720914749
Bahalkeh, E., Madraki, G., & Judd, R. (2015). Efficient system matrix calculation for manufacturing systems. In Proceedings of the 2015 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (pp. 1943-1950).
Madraki, G., Bahalkeh, E., & Judd, R. (2015). Efficient algorithm to find makespan under perturbation in operation times. In Proceedings of the 2015 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (pp. 1474-1481). Nashville, TN.