Lisa M. Maillart, PhD

1030 Benedum Hall | 3700 O’Hara Street | Pittsburgh, PA 15261 P: 412-624-9845

maillart@pitt.edu http://www.engineering.pitt.edu/People/Faculty/Industrial/Primary/Maillart,-Lisa-Marie/ Professor Founder and Co-Director,

Stochastic Modeling, Analysis and Control (SMAC) Laboratory

The majority of Dr. Maillart’s work in maintenance optimization aims to optimally time inspections, replacements and/or repairs for one or more degrading components in an adaptive way (vs. an a priori manner) over time as information about the underlying deterioration level of the component(s) is either (i) observed directly or (ii) inferred from some signal that is probabilistically related to the true level of deterioration. Research in medical decision making involves taking systematic approaches to decision making that will improve the health and clinical care of individuals and assist health policy formation. Dr. Maillart’s accomplishments in this area have focused on chronic disease screening (e.g., personalized mammography schedules) and organ transplantation (e.g., optimal transplantation timing). Dr. Maillart’s work to date on the

maintenance of implanted medical

devices has focused on implanted cardiac devices, i.e., pacemakers and defibrillators. This research has investigated optimal generator replacement policies as a function of patient type, age and the remaining battery capacity as well as dynamic extract/abandon policies for failed cardiac leads. Dr. Maillart’s work to date on healthcare operations has focused on organ allocation system design; vaccine clinic operations; and donor milk bank operations. More specifically, she has considered the impacts of various healthstatus updating frequencies imposed by UNOS; dynamically adjusting hours of operation when administering doses from multi-dose vials (which do not last more than a day) to maximize coverage while minimizing open vial waste; and optimally blending milk from multiple donors, batching milk for pasteurization, and dispensing milk to hospital NICUs and outpatients.

Biographical Sketch

Lisa Maillart is a Professor and Co-Director of the Stochastic Modeling, Analysis and Control (SMAC) Laboratory in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the faculty at Pitt, she served on the faculty of the Department of Operations in the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. She received her M.S. and B.S. in industrial and systems engineering from Virginia Tech, and her PhD in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan. Her primary research interest is in sequential decision making under uncertainty, with applications in medical decision making, health care operations and maintenance optimization. She is a member of INFORMS, SMDM & IIE, and was recently awarded a U.S. Scholar Fulbright Award for study in the Netherlands.