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William Pierskalla

The William Pierskalla
Best Paper Award in The
Health Applications Section

The Health Applications Section of INFORMS sponsors an annual competition for the Pierskalla Award, which recognizes research excellence in the field of health care management science. The award includes a $500 honorarium for the best paper presented in a Health Applications Section sponsored session at the annual INFORMS conference. The award is named after Dr. William Pierskalla to recognize his contribution and dedication to improving health services delivery through operations research. Dr. Pierskalla is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Anderson School at UCLA and the Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor Emeritus, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and serves as an editor on numerous operations research journals.

Eligibility: Any paper presented in a session sponsored by the Health Applications Section during the INFORMS annual meeting is eligible for the award. However, to be considered for the award, a full paper must be submitted by July 1 to the Chair of the Pierskalla Committee. The paper must be presented at the conference to receive the award, although the judging is based on the written paper. The submission can be a working paper, a paper under review, or a previously published paper. If desired by the authors, the winning paper will be published in Health Care Management Science if it has not been published or is not under review elsewhere.

Judging: Papers are judged by a panel of four representatives from the Health Applications Section on

The panel judging the papers reserves the right not to award a prize in any given year.

Application Process: Contact the Chair of the Pierskalla Committee to submit a paper and to present the submission in a Health Applications Section sponsored session. A deidentified electronic copy in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) must be submitted to the Chair of the Pierskalla Committee by July 1 to be considered eligible. The paper should not contain any author identification. Each submission must be accompanied by a PDF cover letter containing 1) complete contact information for the corresponding author, 2) Social Security Numbers for all authors, which are needed to process checks for the INFORMS annual meeting, and 3) if there are multiple authors, how the honorarium is to be distributed and whether they want individual award plaques. The winning paper will not be announced until the Health Applications Section's business meeting at the INFORMS annual meeting.

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