Esmaeil Bahalkeh

Esmaeil Bahalkeh

Assistant Professor
Phone: (603) 862-5054
Office: UNH Health Management & Policy, Hewitt Hall, 321, Durham, NH 03824
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Esmaeil Bahalkeh, PhD, MS, is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire’s Department of Health Management and Policy. His research focuses on Hospital Operations Management, and Healthcare Access, with funding from NIH. His work has been widely published in top peer-reviewed journals. He is actively engaged in INFORMS, DSI, and other professional organizations, and contribute to shaping health policies and improving healthcare delivery systems. His research focuses on improving how healthcare systems deliver care and expand access, with two main streams: Hospital Operations Management, and Healthcare Access.
 
In the Hospital Operations Management stream, he studies how hospitals can better manage their resources, workforce, and internal processes. The goal is to provide high-quality care while staying financially sustainable. This work is especially important as hospitals face rising costs, staffing challenges, and financial pressures. His work explores strategies to improve patient flow, designs effective nurse staffing models, manages hospital inventory and finances more efficiently, and examines the impact of hospital mergers and system affiliations on performance and outcomes.
 
In the Healthcare Access stream, he studies how patients access care across the full spectrum of services. As hospital capacity becomes more limited, other parts of the system (e.g., emergency medical services, long-term care, ambulatory care) play a larger role. His research examines ways to improve access to these services. He evaluates the effectiveness and impacts of operational changes, policy initiatives, and new technologies on healthcare access.
 
He teaches sequences of Healthcare Operations Management courses for BS in Health Management and Policy program, and Quality and Process Improvement in Healthcare for Doctor of Nursing Practice program.

Courses Taught

  • HDS 805: Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • HDS 890: HDS Independent Study
  • HHS 540: Stats for Health Professionals
  • HMP 711: Intro Healthcare Analytics
  • HMP 712: Healthcare Operations Mgmt
  • HMP 712/812: Health Analytics
  • HMP 798H: Honors Project/Research Design
  • HMP 933: Quality Process Imprvmt Health
  • NURS 933: Applied Analytics for QI
  • PHP 985A: Spc Top/Policy and Management

Education

  • Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
  • M.S., Industrial & Systems Engineering, Ohio University
  • B.S., Industrial Engineering, Sharif University

Research Interests

  • Access to Health Services/Medical Care
  • Computer Simulation/Modeling
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Forecasting - Trends/Statistical Analysis
  • Health Services Delivery
  • Production/Operations Management
  • Quality of Care
  • Hospital Administration

Selected Publications

  • Ainslie, M., Bahalkeh, E., & Bigley, M. B. (2024). Nurse practitioner program enrollment trends and predictions.. J Prof Nurs, 55, 97-104. doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2024.09.007

  • Bahalkeh, E., Chiam, T. C., & Yih, Y. (2023). An interpretable clustering classification approach for assessing and adjusting hospital service lines. Healthcare Analytics, 4, 100255. doi:10.1016/j.health.2023.100255

  • Bahalkeh, E., Chiam, T. C., Yih, Y., & Ellison, J. M. (2023). Simulating the effects of access improvement strategies in an outpatient memory clinic with high follow-up volumes. International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, 20(4), 276-285. doi:10.1504/ijspm.2023.138583

  • 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

  • Clark, K. D., Luong, S., Lunn, M. R., Flowers, E., Bahalkeh, E., Lubensky, M. E., . . . Flentje, A. (2022). Healthcare Mistreatment, State-Level Policy Protections, and Healthcare Avoidance Among Gender Minority People. SEXUALITY RESEARCH AND SOCIAL POLICY. doi:10.1007/s13178-022-00748-1

  • 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.

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