Javad Taheri
Bio
Until his retirement in June 2021, Javad Taheri taught and conducted research in industrial engineering at NC State. He served at NC State for over two decades. From 1996 to 2002, he worked as Associate Adjunct Professor in the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute. Then, from 2002 to 2009, he served as Associate Adjunct Professor in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. In 2009, he became Associate Research Professor in the same department. Moreover, he applied engineering skills to real-world challenges in health care.
Since 2009, Taheri has also served as an Operations Research Analyst at the Durham VA Medical Center. There, he works closely with clinical and administrative staff to improve performance using systems engineering. For example, he redesigned the chemotherapy, endoscopy and emergency units. Additionally, he collaborates with the Duke Clinical Research Institute on interventions for improving endoscopy care. Prior to NC State, Taheri worked at Nortel from 1984 to 2002. Notably, he served as Director of Operations Research from 1994 to 2002.
Education
Ph.D. NC State University 1983
M.S. Western Michigan University 1977
B.S. Tehran University 1974
Area(s) of Expertise
Taheri's research focused on business process modeling and simulation, patient flow analysis, scheduling, and decision support tool development.
Publications
- Improving chemotherapy infusion operations through the simulation of scheduling heuristics: a case study , Health Systems (2020)
- Decreasing Endoscopy No-Shows Using a Lean Improvement Framework , Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2019)
- Sa1491 Automating Endoscopy Unit Efficiency Metrics: Leveraging the Electronic Health Record for Process Improvement , Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (2015)
- Systems Engineering Methods for Enhancing the Value Stream in Public Health Preparedness: The Role of Markov Models, Simulation, and Optimization , Public Health Reports (2014)
- Endoscopy Unit Efficiency: Quality Redefined , Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2013)
- Reply , Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2013)
- A simulation study to reduce nurse overtime and improve patient flow time at a hospital endoscopy unit , Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) (2012)
- Su1270 Discrete Event Simulation Modeling: A Valuable Tool to Optimize Endoscopy Unit Efficiency , Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (2012)
- Algorithms for the model configuration problem , IIE Transactions (2004)
Grants
Modeling, analysis, and process optimization to improve Durham VA Medical Center system-wide understanding of current capacity, how to manage the current resources better, and how to adjust available capacity over time to better meet changing demands. Coordinate performance improvement teams of VAMC people (staff and providers) and engineering students from NCSU who will provide technical support and help with data collection and analysis. Project goals and objectives include: 1. Identify and develop systemic patient flow processes and improvements. 2. Provide project prioritization through cost- savings/avoidance analysis for internal projects. The focus will be on improving two key VHA performance measures: the cost of diversions, where a veteran who seeks care at a VHA facility is sent to a private facility due to actual or perceived lack of capacity within the VHA system, and the costs of missed opportunities, where a veteran foregoes care at a VHA facility due to actual or perceived lack of capacity.
Modeling, analysis, and process optimization to improve Durham VA Medical Center system-wide understanding of current capacity, how to manage the current resources better, and how to adjust available capacity over time to better meet changing demands. Coordinate performance improvement teams of VAMC people (staff and providers) and engineering students from NCSU who will provide technical support and help with data collection and analysis. Project goals and objectives include: 1. Identify and develop systemic patient flow processes and improvements. 2. Provide project prioritization through cost- savings/avoidance analysis for internal projects. The focus will be on improving two key VHA performance measures: the cost of diversions, where a veteran who seeks care at a VHA facility is sent to a private facility due to actual or perceived lack of capacity within the VHA system, and the costs of missed opportunities, where a veteran foregoes care at a VHA facility due to actual or perceived lack of capacity.
Modeling, analysis, and process optimization to improve Durham VA Medical Center system-wide understanding of current capacity, how to manage the current resources better, and how to adjust available capacity over time to better meet changing demands. Coordinate performance improvement teams of VAMC people (staff and providers) and engineering students from NCSU who will provide technical support and help with data collection and analysis. Project goals and objectives include: 1. Identify and develop systemic patient flow processes and improvements. 2. Provide project prioritization through cost- savings/avoidance analysis for internal projects. The focus will be on improving two key VHA performance measures: the cost of diversions, where a veteran who seeks care at a VHA facility is sent to a private facility due to actual or perceived lack of capacity within the VHA system, and the costs of missed opportunities, where a veteran foregoes care at a VHA facility due to actual or perceived lack of capacity.