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prof.dr.ir. E.W. Hans (Erwin)

Full Professor

About Me

Prof.dr.ir. Erwin W. Hans is a full professor Operations Management in Healthcare. He is co-founder of research center CHOIR (Center for Healthcare Operations Improvement & Research). His research interests are healthcare operations management, healthcare operations research, capacity management, planning and scheduling. He is a lecturer within various graduate and undergraduate programs within University of Twente.

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Expertise

Engineering & Materials Science
Operating Rooms
Planning
Radiotherapy
Scheduling
Surgery
Business & Economics
Healthcare
Operating Room
Surgery

Publications

Recent
Brauel, K. , van Dun, D. H. , & Hans, E. W. (Accepted/In press). Building organizational resilience through operational excellence: A systematic literature review and qualitative study. 1-10. Paper presented at 31st International Annual EurOMA Conference 2024, Barcelona, Spain.
Hans, E. W. (2023). Integrated Planning: keynote presentation at the EURO-ORAHS 2023 conference in Graz. 49th annual meeting of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services, EURO-ORAHS 2023, Graz, Austria.
Leeftink, G., Martinez, G. , Hans, E. W., Sir, M. Y., & Pasupathy, K. S. (2022). Optimising the booking horizon in healthcare clinics considering no-shows and cancellations. International journal of production research, 60(10), 3201-3218. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2021.1913292
Rouppe van der Voort, M., Glerum, A. , & Hans, E. W. (2021). Minimizing Variation in Hospital Bed Utilization by Creating a Case Type Schedule for the Operating Room Planning. In Handbook of Healthcare Logistics: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice (pp. 231-247). (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science; Vol. 302). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60212-3_12
Vanberkel, P. T. , Boucherie, R. , Hans, E. W. , Hurink, J. L., van Lent, W. A. M. , & van Harten, W. H. (2021). Implementing Algorithms to Reduce Ward Occupancy Fluctuation Through Advanced Planning. In Handbook of Healthcare Logistics: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice (pp. 129-150). (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science; Vol. 302). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60212-3_8
Borgman, N. J. , Vliegen, I. M. H. , & Hans, E. W. (2021). Emergency operating room or not? In Handbook of Healthcare Logistics: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice (pp. 111-128). (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science; Vol. 302). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60212-3_7

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Education

Lecturer for the Industrial Engineering & Management and Health Science BSc and MSc programmes.

Lecturer for the Leadership Honors Programme

Lecturer for post-academic courses for healthcare professionals.

Affiliated Study Programmes

Bachelor

Master

Other

Courses Academic Year  2023/2024

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
 

Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

Contact Details

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 3345
Hallenweg 17
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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Mailing Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn  3345
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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