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Amy Cohn receives funding from Saint Joseph Mercy Health System

by Rod Capps
Industrial and Operations Engineering
September 6, 2017
Professor Amy Cohn, Associate Director of the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety, has received funding for a project to generate call and rounding schedules for General Surgery residents at St. Joseph Mercy Health System| Short Read

Title: Scheduling Tool with St. Joes

Funding: Saint Joseph Mercy Health System

This work will be conducted in collaboration with Research Area Specialist Billy Pozehl, undergraduate CHEPS researchers Anna Learis (IOE), Kevin Li (Engineering Physics), Dale Mallette (CS), Steven MacPherson (CS), and Bassel Salka (IOE), and the St. Joseph surgical chief residents.

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