Rob Richards, Ph.D. is a Principal Investigator and Project Manager at Stottler Henke. Prior to joining Stottler Henke in 1999, Dr. Richards work included Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Process Engineering at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, this work included project scheduling/management and the improvement of the mechanical engineering process.

Since joining Stottler Henke projects have dealt with training system development, decision support and critical chain project management, including much of the design work for the short duration- task CCPM capabilities of Stottler Henke’s Aurora-CCPM product.

Presentation

Dr. Richards presentation will focus on project management and scheduling applications to short duration task projects, and more specifically, their application to the medical industry.

Huge gains can and are being realized in patient scheduling of small and large institutions. Benefits include:

          - Little to no need for re-generating individual schedules
          - Higher than normal predictability in Length of Stay
          - Less chaos in the daily operations
          - Decisions are still being made by the individuals in charge

Decision makers have more effective measure to gauge impact of decisions