THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Curriculum Vitae for Faculty Members
Date:
April 19, 2015
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SURNAME: Shechter
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DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL: Operations and Logistics Division
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FACULTY: Sauder School of Business
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PRESENT RANK: Associate Professor
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POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Initials: SMS
FIRST NAME: Steven
MIDDLE NAME(S): Michael
University or Institution
Loyola University Chicago
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Pittsburgh
SINCE: July 1, 2006
Degree
BS
MS
PhD
Subject Area
Mathematics
Operations Research
Industrial Engineering
Dates
9/1994-5/1997
9/1997-5/1999
1/2002-7/2006
Title of Dissertation and Name of Supervisor
Title: When to Initiate, When to Switch, and How to Sequence HIV Therapies: A Markov Decision Process
Approach
Advisor: Andrew J. Schaefer, PhD
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EMPLOYMENT RECORD
(a)
Prior to coming to UBC
University, Company or Organization
University of Pittsburgh
United Airlines
Automation Associates
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At UBC
Rank or Title
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Dates
7/2006-8/2013
9/2013-Present
Rank or Title
Research Assistant
Senior Analyst
Simulation Analyst
Dates
1/2002-7/2006
7/1999-10/2001
5/1998-8/1998
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TEACHING
(a)
Areas of special interest and accomplishments
Statistics, Simulation, Stochastic Modeling, Operations Management
(b)
Courses Taught at UBC
Session
2014
Winter
2014
Winter
2014
Spring
2013
Winter
2013
Winter
2013
Winter
2013
Winter
2012
Winter
2012
Winter
2012
Winter
2011
Winter
2011
Winter
2011
Winter
2011
Winter
2010
Winter
2010
Winter
2010
Winter
2010
Winter
2009
Winter
2009
Winter
2009
Winter
2009
Winter
Course
Number
BAMS 523
Scheduled
Hours
M/W: 8-10
Class
Size
21
Lectures
2
BAMS 523
T/Th: 2-4
31
2
2
BAMS 523
18
2
2
BAMS 523
Fri-Sun (PT
MBA)
M/W: 8-10
25
2
2
BAMS 523
T/Th: 2-4
25
2
2
BAMS 503
T/Th: 10-12
12
2
2
BAMS 504
T/Th: 10-12
12
2
2
BAMS 503
T/Th: 10:0012:00
T/Th: 10:0012:00
M/W:10-12
8
2
2
8
2
2
5
4
T/Th: 10:0012:00
T/Th: 10:0012:00
T/Th: 2-4
13
2
2
10
2
2
26
2
2
M/W:10-12
2
4
T/Th: 4:006:00
T/Th: 4:006:00
M/W: 1-3
10
2
2
10
2
2
9
4
T/Th:10:3012:30
T/Th: 9:3011:00
T/Th: 2:003:30
T/Th: 4:006:00
T/Th: 4:006:00
4
4
51
3
55
3
13
2
2
11
2
2
BAMS 504
BAMS
518C
BAMS 503
BAMS 504
BAMS
580C
BAMS
518C
BAMS 503
BAMS 504
BAMS
580C
BAMS
518C
COMM 399
COMM 399
BAMS 503
BAMS 504
Hours Taught
Tutorials
Labs
2
Other
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2008
Winter
2008
Winter
2008
Winter
2008
Winter
2007
Winter
2007
Winter
2007
Winter
2007
Winter
2006
Winter
2006
Winter
2006
Winter
2006
Winter
2006
Winter
COMM 399
COMM 399
BAMS 503
BAMS 504
COMM 399
COMM 399
BAMS 503
BAMS 504
COMM 291
COMM 291
COMM 310
BAMS 503
BAMS 504
T/Th: 9:3011:00
T/Th: 2:003:30
T/Th: 4:006:00
T/Th: 4:006:00
M/W: 8:3010:00
M/W: 2:304:00
T/Th: 4:006:00
T/Th: 4:006:00
T/Th: 8:3010:00
T/Th: 10:0011:30
T/Th: 4:006:00
T/Th: 4:006:00
T/Th: 4:006:00
41
3
51
3
12
2
2
12
2
2
47
3
47
3
20
2
2
13
2
2
60
3
55
3
5
2
2
19
2
2
17
2
2
Guest Lectures for UBC courses:
• E-MBA Program (2009): “Introduction to Simulation Modeling in Health Care”
• BAMS 580B: Topics in Health Care Management (topic: “Introduction to Medical Decision Making”)
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2008
Graduate Students Supervised and/or Co-Supervised
Student Name
Alireza Sabouri
Anyu Slofstra
Reza Skandari
Mona Imanpour
Program Type
PhD
MSc
PhD
PhD
Year
Start
2009
2011
2011
2014
Finish
2014
2013
Principal
Supervisor
Steven Shechter
Steven Shechter
Steven Shechter
Steven Shechter
Co-Supervisor(s)
Tim Huh
Tim Huh
Mahesh
Nagarajan/Tim Huh
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Yasin Gocgun
Post-doc
2010
2012
Steven Shechter
Martin Puterman
Farhad Ghassemi
Post-doc
2008
2009
Martin Puterman
Steven Shechter
John Cox
MMOR
2013
2014
Steven Shechter
Amanda Yuen
MMOR
2012
2013
Steven Shechter
Sara Taghipour
MMOR
2011
2012
Steven Shechter
Fatemeh
MMOR
2010
2011
Steven Shechter
Shemshaki
Gary Yip
MMOR
2009
2010
Steven Shechter
Rachel Lewis
MMOR
2008
2009
Steven Shechter
Argelio Santos
MMOR
2008
2009
Steven Shechter
Jing Chen
MMOR
2006
2007
Steven Shechter
Candace Chan
MMOR
2007
2008
Steven Shechter
Stephanie Carew
MBA
2011
2012
Steven Shechter
Mahesh Nagarajan
Cindy Liu
MBA
2011
2012
Steven Shechter
Eric Ma
MBA
2009
2010
Steven Shechter
Vania Yuen
MBA
2009
2010
Steven Shechter
Amar Grewal
MBA
2009
2010
Steven Shechter
Laura Fitzgerald
E-MBA
2009
2010
Steven Shechter
Shelly Fleck
E-MBA
2010
2011
Steven Shechter
Notes:
• PhD students Alireza Sabouri and Reza Skandari were both Lee B. Lusted Finalists for the student paper
competition at the 2012 annual conference of the Society for Medical Decision Making
• I was the faculty advisor for three separate teams of Sauder graduate students, each of which was selected as
a finalist for the 2008 or 2009 Canadian Operational Research Society Simulation Competition. The 2009 team
received first place prize.
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Continuing Education Activities
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Business Analytics for Competitive Advantage (UBC Executive Education, 2012-2015, open enrollment as well
as custom courses)
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Workshop on Discrete Event Simulation Modeling in Health Care (UBC 2008, 2009, 2011)
Introduces health care professionals to the topic of DES and how it can be applied in their organizations.
http://www.mitacs.ca/conferences/DES/; http://chcm.ubc.ca/blog/2009/08/25/des_2009/
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Visiting Lecturer (indicate university/organization and dates)
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University of Chicago, Center for Health and the Social Sciences, 2012
Simulation Modeling in Health Care
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University of Piura, Peru, National Industrial Engineering Student Conference, 2012
Simulation Modeling with Arena and @Risk
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Other: Courses taught elsewhere
Society for Medical Decision Making, Short course co-instructor at the annual meeting
• Course: Discrete Event Simulation Modeling (2002, 2007, 2011)
• Course: Markov Decision Processes – Analytic Methods for Sequential Decisions (2004)
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SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
(a)
Areas of special interest and accomplishments
Operations research, management science, health care operations research, medical decision making, stochastic
optimization
(b)
Research or equivalent grants (indicate under COMP whether grants were obtained competitively (C) or
non-competitively (NC))
Granting
Agency
Michael
Smith
Foundation
for Health
Research
NSERC
NSERC
Martha Piper
Research
Fund (UBC)
Mathematics
of Information
Technology
and Complex
Systems
(MITACS)
NSERC
CIHR
Humanities
and Social
Sciences
Subject
COMP
Career Investigator Award
C
$
Per Year
79,375
Year
Discovery Grant
Project title:
Nonhomogeneous
Markov decision
processes in medical
decision making
Discovery Grant
Project title: Optimal
Timing of Medical
Decisions
Optimal search with
application to minimally
invasive surgery
Accelerate BC Training
Event: Two day workshop
on “Discrete Event
Simulation Modeling in
Health Care”
C
17,000
2007
2012
Steven Shechter
C
21,000
2012
2017
Steven Shechter
C
25,000
2010
Steven Shechter
C
10,000
2008
Steven Shechter
Discovery Grant
Project title:
Nonhomogeneous
Markov decision
processes in medical
decision making
New Emerging Team
Grant
Project title: CIHR team in
operations research for
improving quality cancer
care
Small Research Grant
Project title:
Sequential decision
making among
competitors
C
17,000
2007
2012
Steven Shechter
C
293,316
2007
2012
Scott Tyldesley
Martin Puterman
NC
958
2007
Steven Shechter
2011
2019
Principal
Investigator
Steven Shechter
Co-Investigator(s)
Christopher Nguan
Steven Shechter,
Tom Pickles,
John French,
Mariel Lavieri
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MITACS
Peter Wall
Institute for
Advanced
Study
Agency for
Healthcare
Research
and Quality
(USA)
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Grant for Scientific
Networking Event
Event: Two day
conference on
“Operations Research in
Health Care” held at UBC,
Summer of 2007
Early Career Scholar
Program
C
10,000
2007
Steven Shechter
C
5,500
2007
Steven Shechter
Grant for Health Services
Dissertation Research
Project title:
Optimizing when to start
and switch HIV therapy
C
17,000
2005
2007
Steven Shechter
Martin Puterman
Harish Krishnan
Invited Presentations
Approximate Dynamic Programming in Health Care: Linear Programming and Simulation Based Approaches.
University of Michigan, Industrial and Operations Engineering, 2015.
Approximate Dynamic Programming in Health Care: Linear Programming and Simulation Based Approaches.
University of Cincinnati, Lindner College of Business, 2015.
The endowment effect over space and time. University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Center for
Decision Research, 2014.
Operations research in health care. UBC Division of Nephrology Grand Rounds, 2014.
Optimal screening strategies for patients on the kidney transplant waiting list. UBC Centre for Health
Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, 2014.
Optimal policies for arteriovenous fistula creation for patients on hemodialysis, 2013 INFORMS Healthcare
Conference, Chicago
Optimal policies for arteriovenous fistula creation for patients on hemodialysis, 2013 INFORMS Annual
Conference, Minneapolis
Optimal screening strategies of patients on the kidney transplant waitlist. Northwestern University, Department
of Industrial Engineering and Management Science, 2012.
How industrial engineering can help improve health care management. National Industrial Engineering Student
Conference, University of Piura, Peru, 2012. (plenary speaker)
Optimal screening strategies of patients on the kidney transplant waitlist. Production and Operations
Management Society Conference, 2012.
Optimal screening strategies of patients on the kidney transplant waitlist. University of Texas, McCombs School
of Business, 2012.
Optimizing testing and preparation guidelines for dialysis. Northwestern University, Department of Industrial
Engineering and Management Science, 2011.
The optimal timing of arteriovenous fistula preparation: a decision analytic approach. UBC Division of
Nephrology Grand Rounds, 2011.
The optimal time to prepare an arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis patients. Society for Medical Decision
Making Annual Conference, Chicago, 2011.
Optimizing testing and treatment guidelines for patients with chronic kidney disease. Modelling of Complex
Social Systems Symposium, Simon Fraser University, 2011.
Optimal screening strategies of patients on the kidney transplant waitlist. INFORMS Health Care Conference,
Montreal, 2011.
Optimal screening strategies of patients on the kidney transplant waitlist. INFORMS Annual Conference,
Austin, 2010.
Optimal search in minimally invasive surgery. INFORMS Annual Conference, Austin, 2010.
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Optimal search in minimally invasive surgery. Cornell University, School of Operations Research and
Information Engineering, 2010.
Simulation Modeling in Health Care. CREATE workshop, McGill University, 2010.
Optimal search with application to minimally invasive surgery. University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business,
2010.
Shechter SM. Optimal search with application to minimally invasive surgery. University of Michigan, Industrial
and Operations Engineering, 2010.
Shechter SM. Optimal search with application to minimally invasive surgery. University of British Columbia,
Sauder School of Business, 2009.
Shechter SM. Optimal search with application to minimally invasive surgery. University of Washington,
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2009.
Ghassemi F, Shechter SM, Nguan C, Puterman M. A decision process for resolving location uncertainty in
minimally invasive surgery. INFORMS Annual Conference, San Diego, 2009.
Shechter SM. The optimal time to initiate HIV therapy: Markov decision process and simulation-based
approaches. University of Ottawa, Telfer School of Management, 2009.
Shechter SM. Making evidence-informed decisions in health care: Input from operations research (a different
type of “OR”). UBC Urology Grand Rounds, Vancouver, 2009.
Shechter SM, Alagoz O, Roberts MS. Irreversible treatment decisions under the possibility of improved
treatment discoveries. INFORMS Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 2008.
Shechter, SM. Simulation versus Markov decision processes approaches to HIV therapy planning. Operational
Research Applied to Health Services Annual Conference, Toronto, 2008.
Shechter, SM. Tutorial on Introduction to Medical Decision Making. Operational Research Applied to Health
Services Annual Conference, Toronto, 2008.
Shechter SM, Alagoz O, Roberts MS. Treatment initiation decisions while considering the medical research and
development pipeline. Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, 2008.
Shechter SM. Making evidence-informed decisions in health care: Input from operations research and
simulation modeling. Interior Health Authority, Kelowna, BC, 2008.
Shechter SM, Alagoz O, Roberts MS. Therapeutic optimization considering medical research and development.
INFORMS Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 2007.
Shechter SM. Medical decision making under consideration of the R&D pipeline for new therapies. University of
British Columbia, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2007.
Shechter SM. The optimal time to initiate therapy under medical research and development. University of
Alberta, School of Business, 2007.
Shechter SM. Operations research in health care. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of
British Columbia, 2007.
Shechter SM, Roberts MS, Bryce CL. The Doomsday Paradox: Counterintuitive results when discounting lives
and dollars. Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Vancouver, BC, 2007.
Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ. Machine maintenance and the optimal scheduling of drug therapies.
INFORMS Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006.
Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS, Schaefer AJ. An MDP model of the optimal time to
initiate HIV therapy as a function of two variables. INFORMS Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006.
Shechter SM. Markov decision models for HIV therapy planning. Harvard School of Public Health, 2006.
Shechter SM. Markov decision models for HIV therapy planning. University of Chicago, School of Medicine,
2006.
Shechter SM. Stochastic optimization for HIV therapy planning. University of British Columbia, Sauder School
of Business, 2006.
Shechter SM. Stochastic optimization for HIV therapy planning. University of Arizona, Department of Systems
and Industrial Engineering, 2006.
Shechter SM. Stochastic optimization for HIV therapy planning. George Mason University, Systems
Engineering and Operations Research Department, 2006.
Shechter SM. Stochastic optimization for HIV therapy planning. SUNY-Stony Brook, 2006.
Shechter SM, Braithwaite RS, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ, Chang CCH, Roberts MS, Justice AC. A Markov
decision process approach for evaluating starting rules for antiretroviral therapy. 10th International Workshop
on HIV Observational Databases, Madrid, Spain, 2006.
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Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Bailey MD, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. The optimal time to initiate HIV therapy: A
Markov decision process approach. INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Optimization and Health
Care, San Antonio, TX, 2006.
Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Bailey MD, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. The optimal time to initiate HIV therapy.
INFORMS Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2005.
Shechter SM, Chang CCH, Roberts MS. Modeling HIV natural history and survival with VACS data. VACS
Scientific Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2005.
Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Bailey MD, Roberts MS. The optimal time to initiate HIV therapy. Center for
Research on Health Care Monthly Modeling Meeting, University of Pittsburgh, 2005.
Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Roberts MS, Braithwaite RS. Applying Markov decision processes to HIV therapy.
Invited talk, INFORMS Annual Conference, Denver, CO, 2004.
Shechter SM. Applying Markov decision processes to HIV therapy. HIV Modeling Meeting, Yale University,
2004.
Shechter SM. Variance reduction techniques in cohort simulations. Center for Research on Health Care
Monthly Modeling Meeting, University of Pittsburgh, 2004.
Other Presentations
Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Bailey MD, Roberts MS. The optimal time to initiate HIV therapy: A Markov decision
process approach. Canadian Operational Research Society Annual Conference, Montreal, 2006.
Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ, Chang CCH, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. Optimal time to initiate HIV
therapy: A Markov decision process approach. Poster presentation, Society for Medical Decision Making
Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2005.
Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Chang CCH, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. A Markov model of the natural history of
HIV. Poster presentation, Society for Medical Decision Making Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2005.
Shechter SM, Braithwaite RS, Schaefer AJ, Roberts MS. Modeling the progression and treatment of HIV.
Winter Simulation Conference, Washington, DC, 2004.
Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. Variance reduction when comparing policies in cohort
simulations. Poster presentation, Society for Medical Decision Making Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2004.
Shechter SM, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS, Schaefer AJ. Simulating patient-specific response to HIV therapy.
INFORMS Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2003.
Conference Participation (Organizer, Keynote Speaker, etc.)
Planning Committee, INFORMS Health Care Conference, 2013
Co-chair, INFORMS Health Applications Society Student Paper Competition, 2013
Co-chair, INFORMS/Society for Medical Decision Making joint sessions at annual meeting of both societies
(the two societies held meetings at the same time in Phoenix, 2012, with a day of joint sessions sponsored by
both societies).
Conference Chair: “Operating on Health Care: An Operations Research Symposium”; a two-day symposium
featuring leading experts in health care operations research; held at UBC on August 16 and 17, 2007
(http://www.chcm.ubc.ca/OperatingHC.cfm)
Session Chair:
o Approximate Dynamic Programming in Health Care, 2013 INFORMS Annual Conference
o Optimization in Health Care, 2012 POMS Annual Conference
o Screening Policies in Health Care, 2010 INFORMS Annual Conference
o OR Models in Health Care Planning, 2009 Institute for Operations Research and the Management
Science (INFORMS) Annual Conference
o OR in Cancer Care, 2008 INFORMS Annual Conference
o International Systems and Comparisons, 2008 Operational Research Applied to Health Services
Annual Conference
o Cost Effectiveness in Health Care, INFORMS 2007 Annual Conference
o HIV Models, 2006 INFORMS Annual Conference
o Modeling Interventions in Disease Management, 2006 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference
o OR in Biology, 2003 INFORMS Annual Conference
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10.
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
(a)
Memberships on committees, including offices held and dates
Director, Sauder Centre for Operations Research and Analytics in Health (CORAH)
Sauder EMBA committee, 2013-present
Faculty search committee, Sauder School of Business, 2010-2011
(b)
Other service, including dates
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PhD thesis committee:
o Alireza Sabouri (Sauder), 2009-2014
o Antoine Saure (Sauder), 2010-2012
o Mariel Lavieri (Sauder), 2006-2008
o Alex Qian (Sauder), 2010-2012
MS thesis committee:
o Pooria Assadi (Forestry), 2007
External examiner
o Saba Vahid (Forestry PhD student; qualifying exam, 2008)
University examiner, PhD defense
o Donald Force (Library Studies, 2013)
o Alberto Romero (Sauder Finance, 2013)
o Wei Zhang (School of Medicine, 2013)
o Matthew Hoffman (Computer Science, 2013)
o Mehmet Begen (Sauder Management Science; 2010)
11.
SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
(a)
Memberships on scholarly societies, including offices held and dates
President (2012): Health Applications Society, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Vice President (2011): Health Applications Section, Institute for Operations Research and the Management
Sciences
Co-chair, INFORMS Health Applications Society Student Paper Competition, 2012
Co-chair, INFORMS/Society for Medical Decision Making joint sessions at annual meeting of both societies (the
two societies held meetings at the same time in Phoenix, 2012, with a day of joint sessions sponsored by both
societies).
Member: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Canadian Operational Research
Society, Society for Medical Decision Making, Institute of Industrial Engineers,
(c)
Memberships on scholarly committees, including offices held and dates
Technical Expert Panel, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), 2011
(e)
Editorships (list journal and dates)
Editorial Board Member, Medical Decision Making, 2013-2015
(f)
Reviewer (journal, agency, etc. including dates)
Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and
Operations Management, Operations Research Letters, Naval Research Logistics, Transportation Science,
Journal of Critical Care, Medical Decision Making, Health Care Economics, Journal of Critical Care, Encyclopedia
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of Operations Research and Management Science, Transportation Research E—Logistics and Transportation
Review
Reviewer for the 2009, 2010 INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management student paper
competition and the 2007 INFORMS Decision Analysis Society student paper competition
(i)
Other service to the community
Academic co-chair, Health Services and Policy Research Support Network Steering Council of the Michael Smith
Foundation for Health Research (2009-2012)
Member of the Health Services and Policy Research Support Network Steering Council of the Michael Smith
Foundation for Health Research (2008-2009)
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AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
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Awards for Scholarship (indicate name of award, awarding organizations, date)
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Career Investigator Award, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Early Career Scholar of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC, 2007
Accepted to 2007 Young Researcher Connection, INFORMS Conference on OR Practice, 2007
Finalist, 2006 INFORMS Decision Analysis Society student paper competition, 2006
2004 INFORMS Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services, 2004
Dean’s Fellowship and Wellington C. Carl Fellowship at University of Pittsburgh, 2002
Presidential Fellowship at Georgia Tech, 1997-1999
Presidential Fellowship at Loyola University Chicago, 1994-1997
Joseph Zajdel Memorial Award for Outstanding Junior, Senior in Mathematics at Loyola University, 1996-1997
Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society and Golden Key National Honor Society, 1997
Pi Mu Epsilon Honorary National Mathematics Society, 1997
Other Awards
Gold Award in Information Services Division at United Airlines
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THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Publications Record
SURNAME: Shechter
1.
FIRST NAME: Steven
MIDDLE NAME(S): Michael
Initials: SMS
Date: April 18, 2008
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
* indicates a student I co-authored with
(a)
Journals
Sabouri A*, Shechter SM, Huh WT. Inspecting a vital component needed upon emergency. To appear in
Production and Operations Management.
Shechter SM, Gocgun Y*, Ghassemi F*, Puterman ML. Trading off quick versus slow actions in optimal search.
To appear in Operations Research.
Nagarajan M, Shechter S. Prospect theory and the newsvendor problem. Management Science, 60(4): 1057-1062,
2014.
Shechter SM, Skandari MR*, Zalunardo N. Timing of arteriovenous fistula creation in patients with chronic kidney
disease: A decision analysis. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 63(1): 95-103, 2014.
Regnier ED, Shechter S. State-space size considerations for disease-progression models. Statistics in Medicine,
32(22): 3862-3880, 2013.
Saveh-Shemshaki F*, Shechter S, Tang P, Isaac-Renton J. Setting sites for faster results: Optimizing locations and
capacities of new tuberculosis testing laboratories. IIE Transactions in Health Systems Engineering, 2(4): 248-258,
2012.
Shechter SM, Huh WT, Slofstra A*. Simultaneous testing of multicharacteristic components. Operations Research
Letters, 40(5): 411-415, 2012.
Icten GZ*, Shechter SM, Maillart LM, Nagarajan M. Optimal management of a limited number of replacements
under Markovian deterioration. IIE Transactions, 45(2): 206-214, 2013.
Shechter SM. Efficient solution procedures for a class of optimal stopping problems. Operations Research Letters,
40(5): 409-410, 2012.
Shechter SM. Treatment evolution and new standards of care: implications for cost-effectiveness analysis. Medical
Decision Making, 31(1): 35-42, 2010.
Shechter SM, Alagoz O, Roberts MS. Irreversible treatment decisions under consideration of the research and
development pipeline for new therapies. IIE Transactions, 42(9): 632-642, 2010.
Werker G*, Saure A*, French J, Shechter S. The use of discrete-event simulation modelling to improve radiation
therapy planning processes. Radiotherapy and Oncology, 92(1): 76-82, 2009.
Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ. Replacing nonidentical vital components to extend system life. Naval
Research Logistics, 55: 700-703, 2008.
Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ. A modeling framework for replacing medical therapies. IIE Transactions,
40(9): 861-869, 2008.
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Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ, Roberts MS. The optimal time to initiate HIV therapy under ordered health
states. Operations Research, 56(1): 20-33, 2008.
Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS, Chang CCH, Goetz MB, Gilbert CL, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Shechter S, Schaefer A,
Nucifora K, Koppenhaver R, Justice AC. Influence of alternative thresholds for initiating HIV treatment on qualityadjusted life expectancy: A decision model. Annals of Internal Medicine, 148(3): 178-185, 2008.
Braithwaite RS, Conigliaro J, Roberts MS, Shechter S, Schaefer A, McGinnis K, Rodriguez MC, Rabenek L, Bryant
K, Justice AC. Estimating the impact of alcohol consumption on survival for HIV+ individuals. AIDS Care, 19(4):
459-466, 2007.
Braithwaite RS, Shechter S, Chang CCH, Schaefer A, Roberts MS. Estimating the rate of accumulating drug
resistance mutations in the HIV genome. Value in Health, 10(3): 204-213, 2007.
Braithwaite RS, Shechter S, Roberts MS, Schaefer A, Bangsberg DR, Harrigan PR, Justice AC. Explaining
variability in the relationship between antiretroviral adherence and HIV mutation accumulation. Journal of
Antimicrobial Therapy, 58: 1036-1043, 2006.
Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. Increasing the efficiency of Monte Carlo cohort
simulations with variance reduction techniques. Medical Decision Making, 26(5): 550-553, 2006.
Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ, Shechter SM. SPAR: stochastic programming with adversarial recourse. Operations
Research Letters, 34: 307-315, 2006.
Shechter SM, Bryce CL, Alagoz O, Kreke JE, Stahl JE, Schaefer AJ, Angus DC, Roberts MS. A clinically based
discrete-event simulation of end-stage liver disease and the organ allocation process. Medical Decision Making,
25(2): 199-209, 2005.
Stahl JE, Kong N, Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Roberts MS. A methodological framework for optimally reorganizing
liver transplant regions. Medical Decision Making, 25(1): 35-46, 2005.
Alagoz O, Bryce CL, Shechter S, Schaefer A, Chang CCH, Angus DC, Roberts MS. Incorporating biological natural
history in simulation models: Empirical estimates of the progression of end-stage liver disease. Medical Decision
Making, 25(6): 620-632, 2005.
(b)
Conference Proceedings
Shechter SM, Braithwaite RS, Schaefer AJ, Roberts MS. Modeling the progression and treatment of HIV.
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference, Ingalls RG, Rossetti MD, Smith JS, Peters BA, eds., p.
953-959, 2004.
(c)
Other: Refereed Conference Abstracts
Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ, Chang CCH, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. Optimal time to initiate HIV
therapy: A Markov decision process approach. Poster presentation at the 2005 Society for Medical Decision Making
Conference. Medical Decision Making 26(1): E40, 2005.
Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Chang CCH, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. A Markov model of the natural history of
HIV. Poster presentation at the 2005 Society for Medical Decision Making Conference. Medical Decision Making
26(1): E59, 2005.
Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. Variance reduction techniques when comparing policies in
cohort simulations. Poster presentation at the 2004 Society for Medical Decision Making Conference. Medical
Decision Making 25(1): E42, 2004.
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Roberts MS, Bryce CL, Shechter SM. Counterintuitive results when discounting lives: The Doomsday Paradox.
Oral presentation at the 2003 Society for Medical Decision Making Conference. Medical Decision Making 23(6):
585, 2003.
Roberts MS, Bryce C, Schaefer AJ, Shechter SM, Alagoz O, Angus DC. Optimal organ allocation policy: A
biologically based simulation model. Oral presentation at the 2003 Society for Medical Decision Making
Conference. Medical Decision Making 23(6): 585, 2003.
2.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
(c)
Other: PhD Dissertation
Shechter SM. When to initiate, when to switch, and how to sequence HIV therapies: A Markov decision process
approach. University of Pittsburgh, 2006.
3.
BOOKS
(c)
Chapters
Shechter SM. Monte Carlo simulation as an aid for deciding among treatment options. Encylopedia of Operations
Research and Management Science.
Schaefer AJ, Bailey MD, Shechter SM, Roberts MS. Modeling medical treatment using Markov decision processes,
Chapter 23 in Operations Research and Health Care: A Handbook of Methods and Applications. Brandeau M,
Sainfort F, Pierskalla W, eds., Kluwer, Boston, p. 593-612, 2004.
8.
WORK SUBMITTED (including publisher and date of submission)
Sabouri A*, Shechter SM, Huh WT. Inspection models with application to screening the kidney transplant waiting
list. Under second round review at Operations Research.
Skandari R*, Shechter SM, Zalunardo N. Optimal vascular access choice for patients on hemodialysis. Under
second round review at Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.