Esmaeil Bahalkeh
Dr. Esmaeil Bahalkeh's research interests lie generally in the fields of Healthcare Operations Management, Health Data Science, and Health Services Research. More specifically, his research addresses pressing issues in health systems related to quality and process improvement, equity and access, as well as flow and capacity management.
He teaches several interdisciplinary courses across different programs, including Machine Learning in Healthcare for MS in Health Data Science program, Healthcare Operations Management for BS in Health Management and Policy program, Quality and Process Improvement in Healthcare for Doctoral Nursing program, and Statistics for Health Professionals.
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
- HDS 805: Machine Learning in Healthcare
- HHS 540: Stats for Health Professionals
- HMP 712: Health Analytics
- HMP 712/812: Health Analytics
- NURS 933: Applied Analytics for QI
- PHP 985A: SpcTop/Qual & Process Improve
Selected Publications
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., 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
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.
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).