Mariel Lavieri

• PhD, University of British Columbia, 2009, Management Science
• Master, University of British Columbia, 2004, Management Science, Canadian Operational Research Society Diploma in Operational Research
• BS, University of Florida, 2002, Industrial and Systems Engineering Major, Contrabass Performance Minor
• BA, University of Florida, 2002, Statistics

Dr. Lavieri is a leader in the field of healthcare operations research, with a strong focus on practical impact. She has created dynamic programming, stochastic control, and continuous, partially observable state space models to guide screening, monitoring, and treatment decisions of chronic disease patients. Her work has been applied to guide the management of glaucoma, macular degeneration, coronary heart disease, cancer, and concussion (among others), demonstrating its real-world relevance. Her models have also been used to guide health workforce and capacity planning.

• Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, New Voices 2024-2025 Cohort

• New Voices Cohort Member, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2024
• Sanjay and Panna Mehrotra Research Excellence Award, First Prize, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2022
• Willie Hobbs Moore Aspire, Advance, Achieve Mentoring Award, University of Michigan, 2017
• Production and Operations Management Society College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Award, Production and Operations Management Society, 2016
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2016; Lee Lusted Award for Quantitative Methods and Theoretical Developments, First Prize, Medical Decision Making, 2013, 2018, 2020
• Young Participant with Most Practical Impact Award, International Conference on Operations Research organized by the German and the Dutch OR Society, 2013
• Doing Good With Good OR First Prize, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2012
• Pierskalla Best Paper Award First Prize, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2009
• Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2006

• Czerniak, L, Lavieri, M, Daskin, M, Sweet, B, Leja, J, Tupps, M, Renius, K “When Is It Worth It for Two Hospital Network Pharmacies to Operate as an Integrated Inventory System in the Presence of Supply Chain Disruptions?”. IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering. 04/2024; 14(2): 89-114
• Garcia, G, Lavieri, M, McAllister, T, McCrea, M, Broglio, S, CARE Consortium Investigators “Reducing the Price of Naïveté in Return-to-play from Sports-related Concussion”. Production and Operations Management. 10/2023; 32(10): 3081–3099
• DeRoos, L, Tapper, E, Lavieri, M, Hutton, D, Parikh, N “An Assessment of Ineligible Donor Use in Solid Organ Transplant”. Transplantation. 08/2022; 106(8): 1629-37
• Jones, I, Van Oyen, M, Lavieri, M, Andrews, C, Stein, J “Predicting Rapid Progression Phases in Glaucoma using a Soft Voting Ensemble Classifier Exploiting Kalman Filtering”. Health Care Management Science. 12/2021; 24(4): 686-701
• Garcia, G, Lavieri, M, Jiang, R, McCrea, M, McAllister, T, Broglio, S, CARE Consortium Investigators “Data-Driven Stochastic Optimization Approaches to Determine Decision Thresholds for Risk Estimation Models”. IISE Transactions. 10/2020; 52(10): 1098-1121
• Kazemian, P, Helm, J, Lavieri, M, Stein, J, Van Oyen, M “Dynamic Monitoring and Control of Irreversible Chronic Diseases with Application to Glaucoma”. Production and Operations Management . 05/2019; 28(5): 1082-1107
• Schell, G, Garcia, G, Lavieri, M, Sussman, J, Hayward, R “Optimal Coinsurance Rates for a Heterogeneous Population Under Inequality and Resource Constraints”. IISE Transactions. 01/2019; 51(1): 74-91
• Lee, E, Lavieri, M, Volk, M “Optimal Screening for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Restless Bandit Model”. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 01/2019; 21(1): 198-212
• Liu, X, Hu, M, Wu, K, Helm, J, Lavieri, M, Skolarus, T “Missed Opportunities in Preventing Hospital Readmissions: Redesigning Post-discharge Checkup Policies”. Production and Operations Management . 12/2018; 27(12): 2226-2250
• Helm, J, Lavieri, M, Van Oyen, M, Stein, J, Musch, D “Dynamic Forecasting and Control Algorithms of Glaucoma Progression for Clinician Decision Support”. Operations Research. 09/2015; 63(5): 979-999