Abstract
Cardiovascular disease is among the leading causes of death worldwide and coronary artery disease (CAD) is the major underlying culprit. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has proven to be beneficial to patients with acute coronary syndrome, yet its benefit to stable CAD patients is more nuanced. Indeed, unnecessary PCI procedures for stable CAD patients have contributed to wasteful health spending and, in certain cases, patient harm. In this paper, we model both clinical ambiguity and conflicts of interest in interventional cardiology decision-making. Among other results, we show the PCI usage may be non-monotonic in the conflict-of-interest level. Based on the Joint work with Tinglong Dai and Chao-Wei Hwang (both with John-Hopkins Univ.).
Biography
Dr. Xiaofang Wang is current an associate professor at School of Business, Renmin University of China. She obtained her Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to pursuing studies at CMU, Xiaofang obtained her master and bachelor degrees in Department of Automation from Tsinghua University. Her research interests include healthcare management, strategic queueing, OM/Marketing. Her papers in using queuing games to analyze problems motivated by important applications, such as healthcare and security screening, have been published at Management Science, Navel Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research and other journals. She has won the 2016 POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Award (Runner-up), Yangtze River Young Scholar by the Ministry of Education of China and Outstanding Young Scholar by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Date: 13 January, 2017 (Friday)
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Venue: Room 7-207, 7/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building
City University of Hong Kong
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