Douglas Bish, PhD

Doug

​I am a Professor of Operations Management in the department of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science (Culverhouse College of Business) at the University of Alabama. My research utilizes tools such as optimization, simulation, stochastic models, and data analytics, to solve complex research problems with large societal impacts. My research interests include problems in healthcare, disaster management, and humanitarian supply chains.

​My research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

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News

  • Our grant proposal to the National Institutes of Health Optimal newborn screening algorithms - efficacy and equity was funded.  This R21 explores ways to improve newborn screening, and is in collaboration with the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health .   Congrats to my Co-PIs Ebru and Denise. 
  • Our paper Disease bundling or specimen bundling? Cost- and capacity-efficient strategies for multi-disease testing with genetic assays, published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, was selected as a finalist for the 2024 INFORMS Pierskalla Award for the Best Paper in Healthcare Management Science.   Congratulations to my co-authors Ebru and Hussein!
  • Our paper Improving the equity and efficiency of cystic fibrosis screening  (currently under review),  was selected as a finalist for the 2024 INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR) Best Paper Award.  Congratulations to my co-authors Ebru and Hussein!
  • Congratulations to my former PhD advisee, Dr. Hussein El Hajj, for starting his new tenure track job - Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Analytics in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University!
  • ​​​Congratulations to my former PhD advisee, Dr. Hussein El Hajj, for being awarded the  2022 IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award.
  • ​Our paper Novel pooling strategies for genetic testing, with application to newborn screening was selected as the runner-up for the 2021 Pierskalla Award, and is published in  Management Science! Congrats to my co-authors Ebru Bish, Hussein El Hajj, and Denise Kay!
  • Our paper Optimal data-driven policies for disease screening under noisy biomarker measurement received an honorable mention in the 2020 Best Application Paper in the IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Operations Engineering and Analytics. Congrats to my co-authors Ebru Bish and Saloumeh Sadeghzadeh!
  • Paper accepted!  The paper Optimal pooled testing design for prevalence estimation under resource constraints was recently accepted in Omega.  Congrats to my co-authors Ebru Bish and Ngoc Nguyen.