THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Curriculum Vitae for Faculty Members

Date: April 23, 2016 Initials: SMS 1. SURNAME: Shechter FIRST NAME: Steven MIDDLE NAME(S): Michael 2. DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL: Operations and Logistics Division 3. FACULTY: Sauder School of Business 4. PRESENT RANK: Associate Professor SINCE: July 1, 2006 5. POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION

University or Institution Degree Subject Area Dates Loyola University Chicago BS Mathematics 9/1994-5/1997 Georgia Institute of Technology MS Operations Research 9/1997-5/1999 University of Pittsburgh PhD Industrial Engineering 1/2002-7/2006

Title of Dissertation and Name of Supervisor Title: When to Initiate, When to Switch, and How to Sequence HIV Therapies: A Markov Decision Process

Approach Advisor: Andrew J. Schaefer, PhD 6. EMPLOYMENT RECORD (a) Prior to coming to UBC

University, Company or Organization Rank or Title Dates University of Pittsburgh Research Assistant 1/2002-7/2006 United Airlines Senior Analyst 7/1999-10/2001 Automation Associates Simulation Analyst 5/1998-8/1998

(b) At UBC

Rank or Title Dates Assistant Professor 7/2006-8/2013 Associate Professor 9/2013-Present

7. LEAVES OF ABSENCE

University, Company or Organization at which Leave was taken

Type of Leave Dates

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Northwestern University Sabbatical Fall 2015 University of Chicago Sabbatical Winter/Spring

2016

8. TEACHING (a) Areas of special interest and accomplishments Statistics, Simulation, Stochastic Modeling, Operations Management, Decision Analysis (b) Courses Taught at UBC

Session Course Scheduled Class Hours Taught Number Hours Size Lectures Tutorials Labs Other

2015 Fall

BAMS 523 T/Th: 2-4 33 2 2

2015 Winter

BAMS 523 Fri-Sun (PT MBA)

29 2 2

2015 Winter

BAMS 503 T/Th: 10-12 12 2 2

2015 Winter

BAMS 504 T/Th: 10-12 12 2 2

2015 Winter

BAMS 517 T/Th: 10-12 12 2 2

2014 Winter

BAMS 523 M/W: 8-10 21 2 2

2014 Winter

BAMS 523 T/Th: 2-4 31 2 2

2014 Spring

BAMS 523 Fri-Sun (PT MBA)

18 2 2

2013 Winter

BAMS 523 M/W: 8-10 25 2 2

2013 Winter

BAMS 523 T/Th: 2-4 25 2 2

2013 Winter

BAMS 503 T/Th: 10-12 12 2 2

2013 Winter

BAMS 504 T/Th: 10-12 12 2 2

2012 Winter

BAMS 503 T/Th: 10:00-12:00

8 2 2

2012 Winter

BAMS 504 T/Th: 10:00-12:00

8 2 2

2012 Winter

BAMS 518C

M/W:10-12 5 4

2011 Winter

BAMS 503 T/Th: 10:00-12:00

13 2 2

2011 Winter

BAMS 504 T/Th: 10:00-12:00

10 2 2

2011 Winter

BAMS 580C

T/Th: 2-4 26 2 2

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2011 Winter

BAMS 518C

M/W:10-12 2 4

2010 Winter

BAMS 503 T/Th: 4:00-6:00

10 2 2

2010 Winter

BAMS 504 T/Th: 4:00-6:00

10 2 2

2010 Winter

BAMS 580C

M/W: 1-3 9 4

2010 Winter

BAMS 518C

T/Th:10:30-12:30

4 4

2009 Winter

COMM 399 T/Th: 9:30-11:00

51 3

2009 Winter

COMM 399 T/Th: 2:00-3:30

55 3

2009 Winter

BAMS 503 T/Th: 4:00-6:00

13 2 2

2009 Winter

BAMS 504 T/Th: 4:00-6:00

11 2 2

2008 Winter

COMM 399 T/Th: 9:30-11:00

41 3

2008 Winter

COMM 399 T/Th: 2:00-3:30

51 3

2008 Winter

BAMS 503 T/Th: 4:00-6:00

12 2 2

2008 Winter

BAMS 504 T/Th: 4:00-6:00

12 2 2

2007 Winter

COMM 399 M/W: 8:30-10:00

47 3

2007 Winter

COMM 399 M/W: 2:30-4:00

47 3

2007 Winter

BAMS 503 T/Th: 4:00-6:00

20 2 2

2007 Winter

BAMS 504 T/Th: 4:00-6:00

13 2 2

2006 Winter

COMM 291 T/Th: 8:30-10:00

60 3

2006 Winter

COMM 291 T/Th: 10:00-11:30

55 3

2006 Winter

COMM 310 T/Th: 4:00-6:00

5 2 2

2006 Winter

BAMS 503 T/Th: 4:00-6:00

19 2 2

2006 Winter

BAMS 504 T/Th: 4:00-6:00

17 2 2

Guest Lectures for UBC courses:

• E-MBA Program (2009): “Introduction to Simulation Modeling in Health Care” • BAMS 580B: Topics in Health Care Management (topic: “Introduction to Medical Decision Making”) 2008

(c) Graduate Students Supervised and/or Co-Supervised

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Student Name Program Type Year Principal Co-Supervisor(s) Start Finish Supervisor

Alireza Sabouri PhD 2009 2014 Steven Shechter Tim Huh Reza Skandari PhD 2011 Steven Shechter Mona Imanpour PhD 2014 Steven Shechter Mahesh

Nagarajan/Tim Huh Yasin Gocgun Post-doc 2010 2012 Steven Shechter Martin Puterman Farhad Ghassemi Post-doc 2008 2009 Martin Puterman Steven Shechter Hedayat Zarkoob MSc 2014 Steven Shechter Tim Huh Anyu Slofstra MSc 2011 2013 Tim Huh Steven Shechter John Cox MMOR 2013 2014 Steven Shechter Amanda Yuen MMOR 2012 2013 Steven Shechter Sara Taghipour MMOR 2011 2012 Steven Shechter Fatemeh Shemshaki

MMOR 2010 2011 Steven Shechter

Gary Yip MMOR 2009 2010 Steven Shechter Rachel Lewis MMOR 2008 2009 Steven Shechter Argelio Santos MMOR 2008 2009 Steven Shechter Jing Chen MMOR 2006 2007 Steven Shechter Candace Chan MMOR 2007 2008 Steven Shechter Stephanie Carew MBA 2011 2012 Steven Shechter Mahesh Nagarajan Cindy Liu MBA 2011 2012 Steven Shechter Eric Ma MBA 2009 2010 Steven Shechter Vania Yuen MBA 2009 2010 Steven Shechter Amar Grewal MBA 2009 2010 Steven Shechter Laura Fitzgerald E-MBA 2009 2010 Steven Shechter Shelly Fleck E-MBA 2010 2011 Steven Shechter

Notes: • PhD students Alireza Sabouri and Reza Skandari were both Lee B. Lusted Finalists for the student paper

competition at the 2012 annual conference of the Society for Medical Decision Making • I was the faculty advisor for three separate teams of Sauder graduate students, each of which was selected as

a finalist for the 2008 or 2009 Canadian Operational Research Society Simulation Competition. The 2009 team received first place prize.

(d) Continuing Education Activities • Business Analytics for Competitive Advantage (UBC Executive Education, 2012-2016, open enrollment as well

as custom courses) • Workshop on Discrete Event Simulation Modeling in Health Care (UBC 2008, 2009, 2011)

Introduces health care professionals to the topic of DES and how it can be applied in their organizations. http://www.mitacs.ca/conferences/DES/; http://chcm.ubc.ca/blog/2009/08/25/des_2009/

(e) Visiting Lecturer (indicate university/organization and dates)

• University of Chicago, Center for Health and the Social Sciences, 2012

Simulation Modeling in Health Care

• University of Piura, Peru, National Industrial Engineering Student Conference, 2012 Simulation Modeling with Arena and @Risk

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(f) Other: Courses taught elsewhere Society for Medical Decision Making, Short course co-instructor at the annual meeting • Course: Discrete Event Simulation Modeling (2002, 2007, 2011) • Course: Markov Decision Processes – Analytic Methods for Sequential Decisions (2004) 9. SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (a) Areas of special interest and accomplishments Operations research, management science, stochastic optimization, decision analysis, health care operations research, medical decision making, (b) Research or equivalent grants (indicate under COMP whether grants were obtained competitively (C) or

non-competitively (NC))

Granting Subject COMP $ Year Principal Co-Investigator(s) Agency Per Year Investigator Michael Smith

Foundation for Health Research

Career Investigator Award C 79,375 2011-

2019

Steven Shechter

NSERC Discovery Grant Project title:

Nonhomogeneous Markov decision

processes in medical decision making

C 17,000 2007-

2012

Steven Shechter

NSERC Discovery Grant Project title: Optimal Timing of Medical

Decisions

C 21,000 2012-

2017

Steven Shechter

SSHRC Insight Development Grant: Utility and effort in

contests

C 25,950 2015-

2017

Steven Shechter

Martha Piper Research

Fund (UBC)

Optimal search with application to minimally

invasive surgery

C 25,000 2010 Steven Shechter Christopher Nguan

Mathematics of Information Technology

and Complex Systems

(MITACS)

Accelerate BC Training Event: Two day workshop

on “Discrete Event Simulation Modeling in

Health Care”

C 10,000 2008 Steven Shechter

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NSERC Discovery Grant Project title:

Nonhomogeneous Markov decision

processes in medical decision making

C 17,000 2007-

2012

Steven Shechter

CIHR New Emerging Team Grant

Project title: CIHR team in operations research for improving quality cancer

care

C 293,316 2007-

2012

Scott Tyldesley Martin Puterman

Steven Shechter, Tom Pickles, John French, Mariel Lavieri

Humanities and Social Sciences

Small Research Grant Project title:

Sequential decision making among

competitors

NC 958 2007 Steven Shechter

MITACS Grant for Scientific Networking Event Event: Two day conference on

“Operations Research in Health Care” held at UBC,

Summer of 2007

C 10,000 2007 Steven Shechter Martin Puterman Harish Krishnan

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced

Study

Early Career Scholar Program

C 5,500 2007 Steven Shechter

Agency for Healthcare Research

and Quality (USA)

Grant for Health Services Dissertation Research

Project title: Optimizing when to start and switch HIV therapy

C 17,000 2005-

2007

Steven Shechter

(d) Invited Presentations

• Allocating capacity to surgical specialties at a children’s hospital, Health Care Management Conference, Kelley

School of Business, Indiana University, 2015. • Optimal vascular access choice for patients on hemodialysis, INFORMS Healthcare Conference, Nashville,

2015. • Optimal Issuing Policies for Hospital Blood Inventory, INFORMS Healthcare Conference, Nashville, 2015. • Optimal screening strategies for patients on the kidney transplant waiting list. University of Chicago, Booth

School of Business, 2015. • Approximate Dynamic Programming in Health Care: Linear Programming and Simulation Based Approaches.

University of Michigan, Industrial and Operations Engineering, 2015. • Approximate Dynamic Programming in Health Care: Linear Programming and Simulation Based Approaches.

University of Cincinnati, Lindner College of Business, 2015. • The endowment effect over space and time. University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Center for

Decision Research, 2014. • Operations research in health care. UBC Division of Nephrology Grand Rounds, 2014. • Optimal screening strategies for patients on the kidney transplant waiting list. UBC Centre for Health

Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, 2014. • Optimal policies for arteriovenous fistula creation for patients on hemodialysis, 2013 INFORMS Healthcare

Conference, Chicago

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• Optimal policies for arteriovenous fistula creation for patients on hemodialysis, 2013 INFORMS Annual Conference, Minneapolis

• Optimal screening strategies of patients on the kidney transplant waitlist. Northwestern University, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Science, 2012.

• How industrial engineering can help improve health care management. National Industrial Engineering Student Conference, University of Piura, Peru, 2012. (plenary speaker)

• Optimal screening strategies of patients on the kidney transplant waitlist. Production and Operations Management Society Conference, 2012.

• Optimal screening strategies of patients on the kidney transplant waitlist. University of Texas, McCombs School of Business, 2012.

• Optimizing testing and preparation guidelines for dialysis. Northwestern University, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Science, 2011.

• The optimal timing of arteriovenous fistula preparation: a decision analytic approach. UBC Division of Nephrology Grand Rounds, 2011.

• The optimal time to prepare an arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis patients. Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Conference, Chicago, 2011.

• Optimizing testing and treatment guidelines for patients with chronic kidney disease. Modelling of Complex Social Systems Symposium, Simon Fraser University, 2011.

• Optimal screening strategies of patients on the kidney transplant waitlist. INFORMS Health Care Conference, Montreal, 2011.

• Optimal screening strategies of patients on the kidney transplant waitlist. INFORMS Annual Conference, Austin, 2010.

• Optimal search in minimally invasive surgery. INFORMS Annual Conference, Austin, 2010. • Optimal search in minimally invasive surgery. Cornell University, School of Operations Research and

Information Engineering, 2010. • Simulation Modeling in Health Care. CREATE workshop, McGill University, 2010. • Optimal search with application to minimally invasive surgery. University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business,

2010. • Shechter SM. Optimal search with application to minimally invasive surgery. University of Michigan, Industrial

and Operations Engineering, 2010. • Shechter SM. Optimal search with application to minimally invasive surgery. University of British Columbia,

Sauder School of Business, 2009. • Shechter SM. Optimal search with application to minimally invasive surgery. University of Washington,

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2009. • Ghassemi F, Shechter SM, Nguan C, Puterman M. A decision process for resolving location uncertainty in

minimally invasive surgery. INFORMS Annual Conference, San Diego, 2009. • Shechter SM. The optimal time to initiate HIV therapy: Markov decision process and simulation-based

approaches. University of Ottawa, Telfer School of Management, 2009. • Shechter SM. Making evidence-informed decisions in health care: Input from operations research (a different

type of “OR”). UBC Urology Grand Rounds, Vancouver, 2009. • Shechter SM, Alagoz O, Roberts MS. Irreversible treatment decisions under the possibility of improved

treatment discoveries. INFORMS Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 2008. • Shechter, SM. Simulation versus Markov decision processes approaches to HIV therapy planning. Operational

Research Applied to Health Services Annual Conference, Toronto, 2008. • Shechter, SM. Tutorial on Introduction to Medical Decision Making. Operational Research Applied to Health

Services Annual Conference, Toronto, 2008. • Shechter SM, Alagoz O, Roberts MS. Treatment initiation decisions while considering the medical research and

development pipeline. Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, 2008. • Shechter SM. Making evidence-informed decisions in health care: Input from operations research and

simulation modeling. Interior Health Authority, Kelowna, BC, 2008. • Shechter SM, Alagoz O, Roberts MS. Therapeutic optimization considering medical research and development.

INFORMS Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 2007. • Shechter SM. Medical decision making under consideration of the R&D pipeline for new therapies. University of

British Columbia, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2007.

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• Shechter SM. The optimal time to initiate therapy under medical research and development. University of Alberta, School of Business, 2007.

• Shechter SM. Operations research in health care. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, 2007.

• Shechter SM, Roberts MS, Bryce CL. The Doomsday Paradox: Counterintuitive results when discounting lives and dollars. Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Vancouver, BC, 2007.

• Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ. Machine maintenance and the optimal scheduling of drug therapies. INFORMS Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006.

• Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS, Schaefer AJ. An MDP model of the optimal time to initiate HIV therapy as a function of two variables. INFORMS Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006.

• Shechter SM. Markov decision models for HIV therapy planning. Harvard School of Public Health, 2006. • Shechter SM. Markov decision models for HIV therapy planning. University of Chicago, School of Medicine,

2006. • Shechter SM. Stochastic optimization for HIV therapy planning. University of British Columbia, Sauder School

of Business, 2006. • Shechter SM. Stochastic optimization for HIV therapy planning. University of Arizona, Department of Systems

and Industrial Engineering, 2006. • Shechter SM. Stochastic optimization for HIV therapy planning. George Mason University, Systems

Engineering and Operations Research Department, 2006. • Shechter SM. Stochastic optimization for HIV therapy planning. SUNY-Stony Brook, 2006. • Shechter SM, Braithwaite RS, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ, Chang CCH, Roberts MS, Justice AC. A Markov

decision process approach for evaluating starting rules for antiretroviral therapy. 10th International Workshop on HIV Observational Databases, Madrid, Spain, 2006.

• Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Bailey MD, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. The optimal time to initiate HIV therapy: A Markov decision process approach. INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Optimization and Health Care, San Antonio, TX, 2006.

• Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Bailey MD, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. The optimal time to initiate HIV therapy. INFORMS Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2005.

• Shechter SM, Chang CCH, Roberts MS. Modeling HIV natural history and survival with VACS data. VACS Scientific Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2005.

• Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Bailey MD, Roberts MS. The optimal time to initiate HIV therapy. Center for Research on Health Care Monthly Modeling Meeting, University of Pittsburgh, 2005.

• Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Roberts MS, Braithwaite RS. Applying Markov decision processes to HIV therapy. Invited talk, INFORMS Annual Conference, Denver, CO, 2004.

• Shechter SM. Applying Markov decision processes to HIV therapy. HIV Modeling Meeting, Yale University, 2004.

• Shechter SM. Variance reduction techniques in cohort simulations. Center for Research on Health Care Monthly Modeling Meeting, University of Pittsburgh, 2004.

(e) Other Presentations • Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Bailey MD, Roberts MS. The optimal time to initiate HIV therapy: A Markov decision

process approach. Canadian Operational Research Society Annual Conference, Montreal, 2006. • Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ, Chang CCH, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. Optimal time to initiate HIV

therapy: A Markov decision process approach. Poster presentation, Society for Medical Decision Making Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2005.

• Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Chang CCH, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. A Markov model of the natural history of HIV. Poster presentation, Society for Medical Decision Making Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2005.

• Shechter SM, Braithwaite RS, Schaefer AJ, Roberts MS. Modeling the progression and treatment of HIV. Winter Simulation Conference, Washington, DC, 2004.

• Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. Variance reduction when comparing policies in cohort simulations. Poster presentation, Society for Medical Decision Making Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2004.

• Shechter SM, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS, Schaefer AJ. Simulating patient-specific response to HIV therapy. INFORMS Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2003.

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(g) Conference Participation (Organizer, Keynote Speaker, etc.) • Planning Committee, INFORMS Health Care Conference, 2013 • Co-chair, INFORMS Health Applications Society Student Paper Competition, 2013 • Co-chair, INFORMS/Society for Medical Decision Making joint sessions at annual meeting of both societies

(the two societies held meetings at the same time in Phoenix, 2012, with a day of joint sessions sponsored by both societies).

• Conference Chair: “Operating on Health Care: An Operations Research Symposium”; a two-day symposium featuring leading experts in health care operations research; held at UBC on August 16 and 17, 2007 (http://www.chcm.ubc.ca/OperatingHC.cfm)

• Session Chair: o Approximate Dynamic Programming in Health Care, 2013 INFORMS Annual Conference o Optimization in Health Care, 2012 POMS Annual Conference o Screening Policies in Health Care, 2010 INFORMS Annual Conference o OR Models in Health Care Planning, 2009 Institute for Operations Research and the Management

Science (INFORMS) Annual Conference o OR in Cancer Care, 2008 INFORMS Annual Conference o International Systems and Comparisons, 2008 Operational Research Applied to Health Services

Annual Conference o Cost Effectiveness in Health Care, INFORMS 2007 Annual Conference o HIV Models, 2006 INFORMS Annual Conference o Modeling Interventions in Disease Management, 2006 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference o OR in Biology, 2003 INFORMS Annual Conference

10. SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

(a) Memberships on committees, including offices held and dates Academic Programs, Teaching, and Learning (APTL) committee member, 2015-present

Director, Sauder Centre for Operations Research and Analytics in Health (CORAH), 2014-present Faculty Search Committee, Civil Engineering, 2016 Sauder EMBA committee, 2013-2015 Faculty search committee, Sauder School of Business, 2010-2011 (b) Other service, including dates

• PhD thesis committee: o Alireza Sabouri (Sauder), 2009-2014 o Antoine Saure (Sauder), 2010-2012 o Mariel Lavieri (Sauder), 2006-2008 o Alex Qian (Sauder), 2010-2012

• MS thesis committee: o Pooria Assadi (Forestry), 2007

• External examiner o Saba Vahid (Forestry PhD student; qualifying exam, 2008)

• University examiner, PhD defense o Donald Force (Library Studies, 2013) o Alberto Romero (Sauder Finance, 2013) o Wei Zhang (School of Medicine, 2013) o Matthew Hoffman (Computer Science, 2013) o Mehmet Begen (Sauder Management Science; 2010)

11. SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

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(a) Memberships on scholarly societies, including offices held and dates President: Health Applications Society, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2012 Vice President: Health Applications Section, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2011 Co-chair, INFORMS Health Applications Society Student Paper Competition, 2012 Co-chair, INFORMS/Society for Medical Decision Making joint sessions at annual meeting of both societies (the two societies held meetings at the same time in Phoenix, 2012, with a day of joint sessions sponsored by both societies). Member: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Canadian Operational Research Society, Society for Medical Decision Making, Institute of Industrial Engineers, (c) Memberships on scholarly committees, including offices held and dates

Technical Expert Panel, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), 2011 (e) Editorships (list journal and dates)

Editorial Board Member, Medical Decision Making, 2013-present (f) Reviewer (journal, agency, etc. including dates) Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Operations Research Letters, Naval Research Logistics, Transportation Science, Journal of Critical Care, Medical Decision Making, Health Care Economics, Journal of Critical Care, Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, Transportation Research E—Logistics and Transportation Review

Reviewer for the 2009, 2010 INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management student paper competition and the 2007 INFORMS Decision Analysis Society student paper competition (i) Other service to the community Academic co-chair, Health Services and Policy Research Support Network Steering Council of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (2009-2012) Member of the Health Services and Policy Research Support Network Steering Council of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (2008-2009)

12. AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS (b) Awards for Scholarship (indicate name of award, awarding organizations, date) • Career Investigator Award, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research • Early Career Scholar of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC, 2007 • Accepted to 2007 Young Researcher Connection, INFORMS Conference on OR Practice, 2007 • Finalist, 2006 INFORMS Decision Analysis Society student paper competition, 2006 • 2004 INFORMS Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services, 2004 • Dean’s Fellowship and Wellington C. Carl Fellowship at University of Pittsburgh, 2002 • Presidential Fellowship at Georgia Tech, 1997-1999 • Presidential Fellowship at Loyola University Chicago, 1994-1997 • Joseph Zajdel Memorial Award for Outstanding Junior, Senior in Mathematics at Loyola University, 1996-1997 • Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society and Golden Key National Honor Society, 1997 • Pi Mu Epsilon Honorary National Mathematics Society, 1997

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(d) Other Awards • Gold Award in Information Services Division at United Airlines

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THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Publications Record

SURNAME: Shechter FIRST NAME: Steven Initials: SMS MIDDLE NAME(S): Michael Date: April 18, 2008 1. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS * indicates a student I co-authored with (a) Journals Skandari R, Shechter SM, Zalunardo N. Optimal vascular access choice for patients on hemodialysis. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 17(4): 608-619, 2015. Sabouri A*, Shechter SM, Huh WT. Inspecting a vital component needed upon emergency. Production and Operations Management, 24(12): 1839-1851, 2015. Shechter SM, Gocgun Y*, Ghassemi F*, Puterman ML. Trading off quick versus slow actions in optimal search. Operations Research, 63(2): 353-362, 2015. Nagarajan M, Shechter S. Prospect theory and the newsvendor problem. Management Science, 60(4): 1057-1062, 2014. Shechter SM, Skandari MR*, Zalunardo N. Timing of arteriovenous fistula creation in patients with chronic kidney disease: A decision analysis. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 63(1): 95-103, 2014. Regnier ED, Shechter S. State-space size considerations for disease-progression models. Statistics in Medicine, 32(22): 3862-3880, 2013. Saveh-Shemshaki F*, Shechter S, Tang P, Isaac-Renton J. Setting sites for faster results: Optimizing locations and capacities of new tuberculosis testing laboratories. IIE Transactions in Health Systems Engineering, 2(4): 248-258, 2012. Shechter SM, Huh WT, Slofstra A*. Simultaneous testing of multicharacteristic components. Operations Research Letters, 40(5): 411-415, 2012. Icten GZ*, Shechter SM, Maillart LM, Nagarajan M. Optimal management of a limited number of replacements under Markovian deterioration. IIE Transactions, 45(2): 206-214, 2013. Shechter SM. Efficient solution procedures for a class of optimal stopping problems. Operations Research Letters, 40(5): 409-410, 2012. Shechter SM. Treatment evolution and new standards of care: implications for cost-effectiveness analysis. Medical Decision Making, 31(1): 35-42, 2010. Shechter SM, Alagoz O, Roberts MS. Irreversible treatment decisions under consideration of the research and development pipeline for new therapies. IIE Transactions, 42(9): 632-642, 2010. Werker G*, Saure A*, French J, Shechter S. The use of discrete-event simulation modelling to improve radiation therapy planning processes. Radiotherapy and Oncology, 92(1): 76-82, 2009. Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ. Replacing nonidentical vital components to extend system life. Naval Research Logistics, 55: 700-703, 2008.

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Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ. A modeling framework for replacing medical therapies. IIE Transactions, 40(9): 861-869, 2008. Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ, Roberts MS. The optimal time to initiate HIV therapy under ordered health states. Operations Research, 56(1): 20-33, 2008. Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS, Chang CCH, Goetz MB, Gilbert CL, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Shechter S, Schaefer A, Nucifora K, Koppenhaver R, Justice AC. Influence of alternative thresholds for initiating HIV treatment on quality-adjusted life expectancy: A decision model. Annals of Internal Medicine, 148(3): 178-185, 2008. Braithwaite RS, Conigliaro J, Roberts MS, Shechter S, Schaefer A, McGinnis K, Rodriguez MC, Rabenek L, Bryant K, Justice AC. Estimating the impact of alcohol consumption on survival for HIV+ individuals. AIDS Care, 19(4): 459-466, 2007. Braithwaite RS, Shechter S, Chang CCH, Schaefer A, Roberts MS. Estimating the rate of accumulating drug resistance mutations in the HIV genome. Value in Health, 10(3): 204-213, 2007. Braithwaite RS, Shechter S, Roberts MS, Schaefer A, Bangsberg DR, Harrigan PR, Justice AC. Explaining variability in the relationship between antiretroviral adherence and HIV mutation accumulation. Journal of Antimicrobial Therapy, 58: 1036-1043, 2006. Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. Increasing the efficiency of Monte Carlo cohort simulations with variance reduction techniques. Medical Decision Making, 26(5): 550-553, 2006. Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ, Shechter SM. SPAR: stochastic programming with adversarial recourse. Operations Research Letters, 34: 307-315, 2006. Shechter SM, Bryce CL, Alagoz O, Kreke JE, Stahl JE, Schaefer AJ, Angus DC, Roberts MS. A clinically based discrete-event simulation of end-stage liver disease and the organ allocation process. Medical Decision Making, 25(2): 199-209, 2005. Stahl JE, Kong N, Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Roberts MS. A methodological framework for optimally reorganizing liver transplant regions. Medical Decision Making, 25(1): 35-46, 2005. Alagoz O, Bryce CL, Shechter S, Schaefer A, Chang CCH, Angus DC, Roberts MS. Incorporating biological natural history in simulation models: Empirical estimates of the progression of end-stage liver disease. Medical Decision Making, 25(6): 620-632, 2005. (b) Conference Proceedings Shechter SM, Braithwaite RS, Schaefer AJ, Roberts MS. Modeling the progression and treatment of HIV. Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference, Ingalls RG, Rossetti MD, Smith JS, Peters BA, eds., p. 953-959, 2004. (c) Other: Refereed Conference Abstracts Shechter SM, Bailey MD, Schaefer AJ, Chang CCH, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. Optimal time to initiate HIV therapy: A Markov decision process approach. Poster presentation at the 2005 Society for Medical Decision Making Conference. Medical Decision Making 26(1): E40, 2005. Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Chang CCH, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. A Markov model of the natural history of HIV. Poster presentation at the 2005 Society for Medical Decision Making Conference. Medical Decision Making 26(1): E59, 2005.

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Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS. Variance reduction techniques when comparing policies in cohort simulations. Poster presentation at the 2004 Society for Medical Decision Making Conference. Medical Decision Making 25(1): E42, 2004. Roberts MS, Bryce CL, Shechter SM. Counterintuitive results when discounting lives: The Doomsday Paradox. Oral presentation at the 2003 Society for Medical Decision Making Conference. Medical Decision Making 23(6): 585, 2003. Roberts MS, Bryce C, Schaefer AJ, Shechter SM, Alagoz O, Angus DC. Optimal organ allocation policy: A biologically based simulation model. Oral presentation at the 2003 Society for Medical Decision Making Conference. Medical Decision Making 23(6): 585, 2003. 2. NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (c) Other: PhD Dissertation Shechter SM. When to initiate, when to switch, and how to sequence HIV therapies: A Markov decision process approach. University of Pittsburgh, 2006. 3. BOOKS (c) Chapters Shechter SM. Monte Carlo simulation as an aid for deciding among treatment options. Encylopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. Schaefer AJ, Bailey MD, Shechter SM, Roberts MS. Modeling medical treatment using Markov decision processes, Chapter 23 in Operations Research and Health Care: A Handbook of Methods and Applications. Brandeau M, Sainfort F, Pierskalla W, eds., Kluwer, Boston, p. 593-612, 2004. 8. WORK SUBMITTED (including publisher and date of submission) Sabouri A*, Shechter SM, Huh WT. Inspection models with application to screening the kidney transplant waiting list. To be submitted for third round review at Operations Research. Shechter SM. The Reduction of Compound Lotteries, not the Independence Axiom, is to blame for the Allais Paradox. Submitted to Management Science. Shechter SM, Chandler T, Skandari R, Zalunardo N. The cost-effectiveness of arteriovenous fistula referral policies in chronic kidney disease. Submitted to American Journal of Kidney Diseases.