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Sundara Natarajan Panchanatham

PhD Student in Technology and Operations Management

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Teaching Areas
  • Mathematics for Economics
  • Analytics for Retail and Travel
  • Production and Operations Management
  • Statistics
Industry Sectors
  • Pharmaceuticals and Health

Biography

Campus: INSEAD, Singapore

Research Interests: Healthcare Operations, Public Health, Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management


Dissertation

Provisional Title: "Essays on Capacity Management in the Healthcare Industry "

In my dissertation, I focus on solving capacity management issues that arise in different healthcare contexts. The first two chapters of my dissertation concern the optimal capacity allocation between two diverse sources for stem cell transplant and designing optimal inventory policies for managing cord blood cells. We use data that contains information on genetic diversity in the U.S. population and prescribe policies to the institutions that coordinate stem cell transplants. In the last chapter of my thesis, I mathematically model the key operational trade-offs involved in shared medical appointment (SMA) as a service system and provide normative prescriptions for capacity management for several system configurations.

Doctoral Committee Members: Sameer Hasija (Chair), E Yücesan, Michael Freeman and Harry Groenevelt

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Publication
Panchanatham, Sundara Natarajan, Michael Freeman, Harry Groenevelt, and Sameer Hasija. "Be the Match: Optimizing Capacity Allocation for Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2022).


Working Papers

1) One too many: Optimal inventory policies for cord blood bank management with Harry Groenevelt and Sameer Hasija

2) Sharing in caring: Analyzing shared medical appointments through an operations lens with Enver Yücesan

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Education

• M.Sc. Management, INSEAD, France (2019)
• M.S. Operations Research, Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), Madras, India (2017)
• B.Tech. Production Engineering, National Institute of Technology (N.I.T.), Tiruchirappalli, India (2014)