Health Systems Engineering

Research Publications

  • Darvishi, S., Cure, L. & Misasi, P (2026). Dynamic crew configuration recommendations for emergency medical services. Proceedings of the 2026 IISE Annual Conference.
  • Darvishi, S., Misasi, P., & Cure, L. (2025). Developing workload-informed crew configuration recommendations for emergency medical services. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 108,
  • Ali, U., Cure, L., Lewis, R., Rattani, A., Hill, T., & Woods, N. K. (2024) Examining Rurality and Social Determinants of Health Among Women with GDM: A 15-year Comprehensive Population Analysis, BMC Women’s Health, 24 (467)
  • Ercolani, J., Cure, L., Misasi, P. (2024) Identifying and validating perceived workload metrics for emergency medical services. Applied Ergonomics, 118(104270).
  • Aragon, L., Schieman, K., Cure, L. (2021). Incorporating the six aims for quality in the analysis of trauma care. Health Systems. Published Online. DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2021.1906763
  • Aragon, L., Cure, L. Tiong, E., Bush, R. "Modeling and Analysis of Short-term Work Planning in Inpatient Care Settings", Operations Research for Healthcare, (2018) 19, 14-25.
  • Cure, L. Elliot, A., Nicks, S. “Identifying Appropriate Interruption-Handling Strategies during Healthcare Care Processes”, IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering (2017) 7(4), 261-270.
  • Wan, H. Zhang, L. Witz, S. Musselman, K.J. Yi, F. Mullen, C., Benneyan, J. Zayas-Castro, J.L. Martinez, D. Rico, F. and Cure, L. “A Literature Review of Preventable Hospital Readmissions: Preceding the Readmissions Reduction Act”, IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering (2016) 6(4).
  • Cure, L. Van Enk, R. Tiong E. “The Effect of Hand Sanitizer Location on Hand Hygiene Compliance”, American Journal of Infection Control (2015) 43(9):917-921.
  • E. Salari, J. Unkelbach, and T. Bortfeld, A mathematical programming approach to the fractionation problem in chemoradiotherapy, IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 5(2): 55–73, 2015
  • J. Unkelbach, T. Bortfeld, D. Craft, M. Alber, M. Bangert, R. Bokrantz, D. Chen, R. Li, L. Xing, C. Men, S. Nill, D. Papp, E. Romeijn, and E. Salari, Optimization approaches to volumetric modulated arc therapy planning, Medical Physics 42: 1367–1377, 2015
  • J. Unkelbach, D. Craft, T. Hong, D. Papp, J. Ramakrishnan, E. Salari, J. Wolfgang, and T. Bortfeld, Exploiting tumor shrinkage through temporal optimization of radiotherapy, Physics in Medicine and Biology 59: 3059–3079, 2014
  • Cure, L. Van Enk, R. Tiong E. “A Systematic Approach for the Location of Hand Sanitizer Dispensers in Hospitals”, Healthcare Management Science (2014) 17(3): 245-258
  • Cure, L. Zayas-Castro, J. Fabri, P. “Challenges and Opportunities in the Analysis of Risk in Healthcare” IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering (2014), 4(2):88-104
  • J. Unkelbach, D. Craft, E. Salari, J. Ramakrishnan, and T. Bortfeld, The dependence of optimal fractionation schemes on the spatial dose distribution, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 58(1): 159–167, 2013
  • E. Salari and J. Unkelbach, A column-generation-based method for multi-criteria direct aperture optimization, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 58: 621–639, 2013
    E. Salari and H.E. Romeijn, Quantifying the trade-off between IMRT treatment plan quality and delivery efficiency using direct aperture optimization, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 24(4): 518–533, 2012
  • J. Wala, E. Salari, W. Chen, and D. Craft, Optimal partial-arcs in VMAT treatment planning, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 57(18): 5861–5874, 2012
  • E. Salari, J. Wala, and D. Craft, Exploring trade-offs between VMAT dose quality and delivery efficiency using a network optimization approach, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 57(17): 5587–5600, 2012
  • D. Craft, D. McQuaid, J. Wala, W. Chen, E. Salari, and T. Bortfeld, Multicriteria VMAT optimization, Medical Physics, 39(2): 686–696, 2012
  • E. Salari, C. Men, and H.E. Romeijn, Accounting for the tongue-and-groove effect using a robust direct aperture optimization approach, Medical Physics, 38(3): 1266–1279, 2011
  • Cure, L. Zayas-Castro, J. Fabri, P. “Clustering Near-Miss Reports to Identify Risk in Healthcare Delivery”, Journal of Biomedical Informatics (2011), 44(5): 738-48.