Bjorn Berg, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management

Contact Info
Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
PhD, Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University
BA, Mathematics, St. Olaf College
Summary
My research is focused on applying operations research methods and analytic approaches within health care delivery settings. I am interested in understanding the inherent uncertainty in complex health care systems and developing strategies to mitigate its effects. My research interests are in the decisions surrounding health care operations, planning, and scheduling and what their implications are in developing policies, evaluating quality measures, and measuring outcomes.
Expertise
Health care operations, medical decision-making, health care scheduling, stochastic optimization, simulation
Professional Associations
Associate Editor, IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering
Associate Editor, Health Care Management Science
Research
Research Funding Grants
2019-2022, AHRQ/PCORI/MHealth Fairview, K12 Scholar, Minnesota Learning Health System, “Clinic as Curriculum: Modeling, Implementation, and Evaluation”
Publications
See a full list of my publications on Google Scholar
Recent Publications
Bai, Y., & Berg, B. P. (2021). Mitigating Nonattendance Using Clinic-Resourced Incentives Can Be Mutually Beneficial: A Contingency Management-Inspired Partially Observable Markov Decision Process Model. Value in Health, 24(8), 1102-1110.
Bansal, A., Berg, B. P., & Huang, Y. L. (2021). A distributionally robust optimization approach for coordinating clinical and surgical appointments. IISE Transactions, 1-83.
Bansal, A., Berg, B. P., & Huang, Y. L. (2021). A value function-based approach for robust surgery planning. Computers & Operations Research, 132.
Berg, B. P., Erdogan, S. A., Lobo, J. M., & Pendleton, K. (2020). A Method for Balancing Provider Schedules in Outpatient Specialty Clinics. MDM Policy & Practice, 5(2).
Teaching
Courses
PubH 6560, Operations Research and Quality in Healthcare
PubH 7560, Operations Research and Quality in Healthcare (Executive MHA)