EXPERTS: Lawrence Wein, Stanford University, and Edward H. Kaplan, Yale School of Management
DATE: Monday, November 18
TIME: 3 PM , for approximately 20 minutes
PLACE: San Jose Convention Center, Room L
Professor Kaplan recently addressed officials at a special briefing in the White House Conference Center about responding to a smallpox attack on the United States. Those attending were representatives of the Office of Homeland Security, the Council of Economic Advisors, the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as other topic government officials.
The authors take issue with the Centers for Disease Control about the best way to vaccinate Americans in case of a bio-terror attack. CDC recommends pre-vaccinating only 500,000 hospital health workers. Professors Kaplan and Wein argue that the U.S. must vaccinate a minimum of 1¼ - 2 ½ million health workers in order to rapidly vaccinate the population of the United States at hospitals and clinics everywhere in the country.
This research has been cited widely in the press, with interviews on The Today Show, an editorial in The Wall Street Journal, and articles in The New York Times and USA Today .
Professor Kaplan is this year’s winner of the INFORMS Presidents Award, which is presented for important contributions to the welfare of society. Prof. Wein is Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS flagship journal Operations Research, which was recently cited in the Business Week MBA issue.
The INFORMS 50th Annual Meeting, "The Silicon Valley Challenge," in San Jose will include sessions on topics in numerous fields, including the military, air safety, e-commerce, information technology, energy, transportation, marketing, telecommunications, and health care. U.S. Secretary of the Air Force James P. Roche is scheduled as a plenary speaker. Close to 2,500 people are expected to attend. Additional information about the conference is at http://www2.informs.org/Conf/SanJose2002 and http://www2.informs.org/Press.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) is an international scientific society with over 10,000 members dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, the stock market, and telecommunications. 2002 is the 50th anniversary of organized operations research in the United States. 1952 was the year that the journal Operations Research and the Operations Research Society of America, one of the founding societies of INFORMS, were born. The INFORMS website is at http://www.informs.org.