Undergraduate Research

Year Student Name Thesis Topic
2008 Eric Chow, Andrew Taylor Surgical scheduling at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
2008 Alexandra Barrett , Tiffany Chow Phlebotomy lab process improvement at UHN
2008 Gillian Chin, Jason Coke *Winner: 2008 Centennial Thesis Award. EMS Call Centre capacity analysis using queueing and simulation
2007 Gouri Angadi, Yi Ming Chen Optimization of Patient Length of Stay at Bridgepoint Hospital
2007 Christina Hang, Kenneth Shek Winner: R.F. Moore Thesis Award. Lean Thinking in the Mount Sinai Hospital Microbiology Lab Specimen Management Process
2007 David Hui, Jeffrey Rosen Creating an Efficient Preadmission Process at St. Joseph’s Health Centre
2007 Andrew Novak, Taabish Hassan A Redesign of the Mt Sinai Hospital Emergency Department Ambulatory Care Area
2007 Natasha Lalani, Ivan Yuen An Analysis of the Forecast Model for Nurse Staffing at the University Health Network
2006 Greg Dashwood , Hafeez Kassam Analysis of the Surgical Processing Department at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Toronto
2006 Nimesh Shah , Denise Figueiredo Simulation of the Fracture Clinic at the Toronto Western Hospital
2006 Teresa Schirripa , Pauline Wu Analysis of patient intake for the early speech and language program at Erinoak Children’s Centre
2006 Pam Chan, Carolyn Machnik Winner: R.F. Moore Thesis Award. Analysis of EMS drop off delays at four Toronto hospitals
2005 A. Chick, S. Hickey Analysis of Operating Room Assignment Processes for Neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital
2005 M. Henderson, L. Yu Toronto Rehabilitation Hospital
2005 V. Clark, T Ngai Transcription Analysis at Bloorview MacMillan Children’s Centre
2005 P. Rahman, Z. Rejali MDS Inventory Analysis
2004 F. Fiumara, K. Sutherland Analysis of the Intranet for the Medical Imaging Department at the University Health Network
2004 A. Eremenko, N. Paladino An Assessment of the Efficiency of the Operating Rooms at the Toronto Western Hospital
2004 C..Yiu, W.-L. Liu Evaluation of Staff Scheduling Software for the Toronto Medical Laboratory Rapid Response Unit
2003 S. Vanderby, A. Kolos Electrophysiology Department Process Improvement at the Toronto General Hospital
2003 A. Hung, T.-Q. Vu Investigating the Patient Length of Stay in General Internal Medicine at the Toronto Western Hospital
2003 J.-M. Hartnel, J. Au-Yeung A Study of EDI at St. Michael’s Hospital
2003 M. Dosanjh, J. Wyndham-Wheeler Toronto Western Hospital Neurosciences Critical Care Patient Flow Analysis
2003 C. Campbell, N. Chen Nursing Workload Evaluation – A Study of non-Direct Care Activities Performed by Nurses at the Toronto General Hospital
2003 B. Bregman Investigating the Value of the Patient Tracking System and Electronic Whiteboard in the Emergency Department at the Toronto General Hospital
2003 A. Brans, C. Chan *Winner: 2003 Centennial Thesis Award. Demonstrating Value of the EPR at Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Science Centre
2003 Z. Baldwin , I. Nichol Systematically Evaluating the Quality of Data Used to Produce Key Performance Indicators at the University Health Network
2001 T. Yu , C. Gonsalves Development of Requirements for a Perinatal Information System at Mount Sinai Hospital
2001 J. C.-S. Tse Improving Electrocardiogram Processes at Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre Emergency Department
2001 B. Loy Portfolio Optimization – An Asset Allocation Problem
2001 H. Huang, C. Wong Chemotherapy Scheduling and Unit Process Analysis at the Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre
2001 E. Fisher, K. Law, E Trinh Analysis of Implementing an Radio Frequency Identification System at St. Michael’s Hospital
2001 A.Chan , W. Lam Enterprise-wide Patient Scheduling at the University Health Network
2000 A. Lawrence , M. Lee The Development of a Strategy for Implementing a Decision Support System - Department of Nephrology, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre
2000 N. Kerrigan, M. Le Bed Availability and Utilization as a Function of Capacity - Department of Cardiology, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre
2000 K. Duffin, E. Lau Re-Designing the Patient Registration Process at Mount Sinai Hospital's Rheumatology Clinic
2000 M. Lam, S. Maligec Consolidation of the Centre for Addiction and Mental health's Emergency Crisis Services: A Feasibility Study
2000 H. Patterson, K. Phillips The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health's Bed Assignment Problem
1999 A. Prisman "Development of an Automated Course Timetabling System for a Jewish Secondary School (Shared with M.J.M. Posner)
1999 R. Kopach, J. Yu Development of a Multi-Criteria Selection Model for Resource Allocation for Simcoe County CCAC
1999 V. Loh, P. Yu Computer Deployment and Printer Reallocation for CAMH
1999 E. Chan, K. Kwan Improving the Linen Control at St. Michael's Hospital
1999 E. Schwartz , V. Light Mount Sinai Hospital's Network-Project Planning and Recommendation for an Effective Migration" (Shared with M.J.M. Posner)
1999 J. Kim , W. Lee Winner: 1999 Industry Award. An Analysis of the Preparation and packaging Area of the Regional Processing Centre at the Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre
1999 D. Baillie, A. Pal Psychiatric Emergency Services Analysis for CAMH
1999 M. Wu, L. Chan Operating Rooms Efficiency at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre
1998 S. Barrett Optimization of Students Placed in the University of Toronto Co-Op Program in Management and Finance
1998 R. Chan, I. Lee Development of a Comparable Performance Indicator Utilizing Length of Stay: Mt. Sinai Hospital
1998 Z. Bhujwalla, J. Lin HIV Clinical Information System Review and Design: Toronto General Hospital
1998 M. Kwok, E. Chung *Winner: 1998 Centennial Thesis Award. Improving the Laundry System in a Health Care Environment at St. Michael's Hospital
1997 A. Mohammadokht, L. Cannistraci A Model to Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Food Distribution in the Long Term Care Facility at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
1997 M. Ho , J. Ng Development of the Critical Care Patient Service Unit Balanced Scorecard at Sunnybrook Science Centre
1997 S. de Souza, R. Zupancic Improving the Process in the Emergency Department at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
1997 A. Coutinho, M Papagni Off Service Patient Management System for General Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Centre
1997 D. Chung, B. Ngai Resident Scheduling for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto
1997 J. Batucan,P. Wong Secondary Prevention Clinic Data Base Design and Implementation: Cardiovascular Patient Service Unit, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
1997 A. Angel , R. Khayat *Winner: Centennial Thesis Award. The Automation of the Data Acquisition Processes for the Sunnybrook Health Science Centre Balanced Score record
1996 A. Mitha , K. Reid Turn Around Time in the Operation Room at Mount Sinai Hospital
1996 M.A. Milazzo, M. Vivona The Continuous Process Improvement of the patient Booking Procedure and Patient File for the Catheterization Laboratory at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
1996 C. Leung, B.C. Wong Process Improvement in Radiation Oncology
1996 R. Bleichman, J. Malda Reducing Medically Unnecessary Days
1996 A. Battacchio, A. Boulos Reengineering of the Cardiac Surgery Unit at Sunnybrook H.S.C.
1994 H. Isenberg, C. Jian Analysis of Nurse Scheduling Software for Mount Sinai Hospital
1994 B.T. Comiskey, J. Mosselson Demand Forecasting System: Upper Canada Brewing Company
1994 S. Au, C. Ng Examination Scheduling for Special Services at the University of Toronto
1993 C. Menezes, M. Price Decision Support System: Upper Canada Brewing Company
1993 A. Asa, A. Kanceljak Design and Implementation of a Graduate Student Database
1992 K.K. Lui, M.L. Ng Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) Resident Scheduling Program
1992 J.A. Colosia, M. Costa Decision Making Model for a Budgeting and Planning System
1992 B. Camire, W. Gutierrez Production Scheduling for VTR Video
1991 S.Y. Lee , J.L. Lobo Creating a User Interface for the Exam Scheduling Program at the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto
1990 H.E. Ohlig Examination Timetabling for the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto
1989 H. Shum, A.L. Sperduti Inventory Management at IBM
1989 S.F. Jajarmi, K.M. Law Dynamic Slide Line Set-up and Scheduling System for DMS Circuit Pack Manufacturing in Northern Telecom Limited
1989 T. Do-Ky, Z. Lam, A. Wong ATZ Circuit Board Scheduling System
1989 A. Arcaro , R. Garbaliauskas Presentation Analysis and Recommendations for Groundwood Order Acceptance System for Abitibi-Price Systems Department
1987 A. Richards, S. Boutsikou Reduction of Throughput Line Thermal Calibration Process Federal Pioneer in Markham
1987 W. Paolucci, I. Tropak An Evaluation of Available Production Scheduling Systems
1987 T. Darolfi , B. Popadiuk An Investigation of the Feasibility of an Uninterruptible Power Supply for Liton Systems Canada Inc.
1986 W.F. Skolud, R.H. Witte Direct Product Profitability Applications for Grocery Retail Operations at Loblaws Supermarkets Inc.
1986 M. Convertini, T. Di Iorio, S. Wagman Optimization of Distribution Through Customer Allocation at Central Canada Grocers Inc.
1986 L. Alegre, M. Koyanagi Pisces Speed-Up (Imperial Oil)
1985 R.S. Schnurr , D.A. Stuart A Heuristic Approach to a Multi-Product Scheduling Problem
1985 K.J. Maly, T.H. Moran A Proposed Robotics Application for the Automation of the Palletizing/Depalletizing Operations at National Grocers
1985 G. Diadamo A Model for Constructing Random Timetable Data
1985 E. Chen, L. Ma The Scheduling of Backhauls for Central Services of Loblaws Limited
1985 D. Chau, P. Singh A lease-Purchase Comparison and Policy Development for National Grocers (Ottawa) Transportation Fleet
1984 A.Schnurr A Vehicle Replacement Policy Study
1984 J. Cundari , C. Masciarelli Production Planning at William Neilson Limited
1984 J. Chiaramonte, J. Peri Production Scheduling of the Carton Manufacturing Industries
1984 M. Catz On the Application of Random Graph Models to the Timetabling Problem
1984 M. Bell, D. Szechy Manpower Planning and Scheduling for Air Canada
1983 P.J. Selby An Analysis of the Packaging System at Ortho Diagnostic Systems, Inc.
1983 H.P. Linden The Assured Quality Production System: A Tool for the Future
1983 Y. Kordiuk A Study of Timetabling at Secondary Schools
1983 B.D. Calder, M.V. Lucey A Dispatching Support System for an Electronics Repair Facility
1983 P. Bhargava, C. Droulias Clique Finding as Applied to Timetabling
1983 A. Arrizza , P. Karellas A Feasibility Study of the Rover System at National Grocers Co. Ltd.
1982 J. Koschitzky , M Mortson Vehicle Routing Procedures in Theory and in Application
1982 B. Goulios, J. Leaver-Power An Analysis of the Least Time Discipline and Forecasting Methods at National Grocers Co. Ltd.
1982 T. Catcher, C. Marchildon A Case Study of Minimum Profitability Levels and Their Uses for National Grocers Co. Ltd.