Kumar, Sameer
Operations and Supply Chain Management
University of Saint Thomas Saint Paul
United States of America
Biography
As CenturyLink Endowed Chair in Global Communications and Technology Management at the Opus College of Business, Sameer Kumar, Ph.D., is focused on providing research leadership and a strong commitment to teaching and service. At the University of St. Thomas, he was the recipient of the 2013 John Ireland Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Teacher/Scholar. Kumar is also an affiliate faculty and graduate faculty member in the Institute for Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota. He has published over 230 archival journal articles and seven books in health care systems applications, supply chain systems modeling, systems engineering, system dynamics, humanitarian logistics, environmental-friendly supply chains, risk management, knowledge management, outsourcing, production and service cost economics, and decision support systems. Kumar received research grants from NSF, the state of Wisconsin and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He received the 2000 Star of Excellence Quality Award from Medtronic Corporation for a successful design of an assembly line using PROMODEL Simulation Software. He is the recipient of the OMEGA Journal Best Reviewer Award for 2013. He also received the 2010 Goodeve Medal for the best paper published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society in 2009.
Research Interest
Modeling and Optimization of Global Supply Chains, Healthcare Systems and Health Services Research, Risk Management, Sustainability and Environment, Humanitarian Logistics, Transportation, Information Technology Applications, Decision Analysis, and Production and Service Cost Economies
Publications
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Kumar S, Yang M, Strike DM. Assessing effect of global inventory planning with enterprise-wide information for a large manufacturer. Journal of Manufacturing Systems. 2015 Jan 31;34:34-42.
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Yang M, Kumar S. Analyzing Patient Choices for Routine Procedures in US Versus Overseas Before and after Affordable Care Act. Health Systems. 2015.
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Kumar S, Southard PB, White M. Telemedicine: determining" critical to quality" characteristics for a healthcare service system design based on a survey of physical rehabilitation providers. IEEE Engineering Management Review. 2016;44(2):41-55.
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Goldschmidt KH, Kumar S. Humanitarian operations and crisis/disaster management: A retrospective review of the literature and framework for development. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2016 Dec 31;20:1-3.
