Ravelijn

dr. S. Rachuba (Sebastian)

Assistant Professor
BMS-HBE-IEBIS
Ravelijn 3313
s.rachuba@utwente.nl
+31534897410
Business card

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente (NL) within the Faculty of Behavioural, Management, and Social Sciences. I hold a PhD in Management and Economics from Ruhr University Bochum and spent my postdoc time at Municipal Hospital Solingen (GER) and University of Exeter Medical School (UK). Subsequently, I worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Wuppertal (GER).

My research focuses on improving healthcare by supporting complex planning decisions and evaluating their impact on management, patients, staff, and the wider society. I apply optimisation and simulation models as well as interactive combinations of both.

I have developed novel operating room planning approaches and analysed the impact of pathway redesign in Emergency Departments. Other projects investigate ambulance location and reorganising a network of volunteer fire stations. My research is published in high-ranking journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Health Care Management Science, and Operations Research for Health Care.

I am an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter Medical School (UK) and hold an Associate Research Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy (UK). I also serve as the IFORS Representative of the German Society for Operations Research. I am also Area Editor for the Health Systems Journal and member of the Editorial Board of Operations Research for Health Care.

GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nOf1HaIAAAAJ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-rachuba/

Expertise

  • Nursing and Health Professions

    • Emergency Ward
    • Patient
    • Troponin

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    • Emergency Department
    • Inpatient

  • Social Sciences

    • Health Care
    • Literature Reviews
    • Operations Research

Organisations

Publications

2024

Criteria-based outpatient scheduling at a nephrology clinic: prospective evaluation of patient pre-assessment and its corresponding adaptive scheduling strategy (2024)BMC health services research, 24. Article 1145. Klaas, R., Lok-Visser, J., Doornebal, J., Roelofs, T., Rachuba, S. & Leeftink, G.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11615-7Integrated planning in hospitals: a review (2024)OR Spectrum = OR Spektrum (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Rachuba, S., Reuter - Oppermann, M. & Thielen, C.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00291-024-00797-5

2023

Einsatz neuronaler Netze in der Notaufnahme: Eine Illustration anhand der Prognose der stationären Aufnahme (2023)Notfall und Rettungsmedizin, 26(6), 401 – 406. Weberskirch, C., Pigorsch, U., Tralls, P. & Rachuba, S.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10049-021-00974-xIntegrated Planning in Hospitals: A Review (2023)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Rachuba, S., Reuter - Oppermann, M. & Thielen, C.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.05258

2022

Tactical blueprints for surgical weeks - An integrated approach for operating rooms and intensive care units (2022)European journal of operational research, 298(1), 243-260. Rachuba, S., Imhoff, L. & Werners, B.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.06.005

2021

Special Issue on Healthcare Analytics (2021)Operations research for health care, 30. Article 100309. Büsing, C., Rachuba, S. & Thielen, C.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orhc.2021.100309

Research profiles

Scan the QR code or
Download vCard