Gréanne Leeftink is an assistant professor within the department Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems, in the CHOIR research center at the University of Twente (Enschede).

Gréannes research focus is on healthcare process optimization, with a specific interest in cancer care and diagnostic processes, using Operations Management/Operations Research techniques.

In 2017, Gréanne completed her PhD with CHOIR, as well as University Medical Center Utrecht. As part of her PhD program, she visited Rochester’s Mayo Clinic (USA) for a 3 month research visit, on a scholarship of Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds. The focus of her PhD was on the optimization of the shared resources involved in oncology related health care processes, based on a personal NWO talent grant, and resulted in her thesis Why wait? Organizing integrated processes in cancer care.

Expertise

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    • Diagnosis
    • Esophageal Cancer
    • Laboratory
    • Survival
    • Therapeutic Procedure
  • Nursing and Health Professions

    • Time
    • Hospital
  • Computer Science

    • Scheduling

Organisations

Publications

2023

Outpatient clinic scheduling with limited waiting area capacity (2023)Journal of the Operational Research Society, 74(2), 540-561. Otten, M., Dijkstra, S., Leeftink, G., Kamphorst, B., Olde Meierink, A., Heinen, A., Bijlsma, R. & Boucherie, R. J.https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2021.1978347

2022

Limited waiting areas in outpatient clinics: An intervention to incorporate the effect of bridging times in blueprint schedules (2022)BMJ Open Quality, 11, 1-10. Article e001703. Dijkstra, S., Otten, M., Leeftink, G., Kamphorst, B., Olde Meierink, A., Heinen, A., Bijlsma, R. & Boucherie, R. J.https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2021-001703Optimising the booking horizon in healthcare clinics considering no-shows and cancellations (2022)International journal of production research, 60(10), 3201-3218. Leeftink, G., Martinez, G., Hans, E. W., Sir, M. Y. & Pasupathy, K. S.https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2021.1913292

2021

Reducing failures in daily medical practice: Healthcare failure mode and effect analysis combined with computer simulation (2021)Ergonomics, 64(10), 1322-1332. Leeftink, A. G., Visser, J., de Laat, J. M., van der Meij, N. T. M., Vos, J. B. H. & Valk, G. D.https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2021.1910734Making an Impact on Healthcare Logistics (2021)In Handbook of Healthcare Logistics: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice (pp. 1-13) (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science; Vol. 302). Springer. Zonderland, M. E., Leeftink, G., Braaksma, A., Boucherie, R., Hans, E. W. & Kortbeek, N.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60212-3_1On the design, implementation, and feasibility of hospital admission services: The admission lounge case (2021)Omega, 100. Article 102308. Veneklaas, W., Leeftink, A. G., van Boekel, P. H. C. M. & Hans, E. W.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2020.102308

2020

Optimale cliënt- en capaciteitsplanning bij het Bevolkingsonderzoek darmkanker (2020)[Thesis › EngD Thesis]. University of Twente. Manders, J.

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