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Inês Marques

Assistant Professor

Instituto Superior Técnico

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Inês Marques is Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering and Management (DEG, IST, University of Lisbon), and Researcher at the Centre for Management Studies. Her main research areas focus on operations research for operations management, mainly to support planning and scheduling decisions and to improve health care service delivery. She has worked in several research projects in collaboration with health care service providers. She has published in journals in the areas of operations research and management science. She was co-Coordinator of the European Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (EWG ORAHS) and member of the board of the European Working Group on Practice of Operational Research (EWG POR). She holds a degree in Mathematics Applied to Economics and Management, a MSc in Operations Research and a PhD in Statistics and Operations Research.

Research Groups

Projects

LAIfeBlood - Artificial Intelligence for Blood Management

The goal of LAIfeBlood project is to provide IPST with new tools to improve efficiency of blood supply operations in Portugal. LAIfeBlood project is particularly focused on: (1) extracting temporal and geographical patterns from historical collection and transfusion data; (2) developing predictive models for the expected collections and transfusions in different temporal and geographic areas; and (3) developing software tools to optimize the planning of collections at the national level according to the availability of IPST teams and resources and collection events.

Data2Help - Data science for the optimization of emergency medical services

Emergency medical services in mainland Portugal are coordinated by Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica (INEM). In most cases, medical emergency situations are reported to INEM through a phone call to the 112 number, where specialized medical staff classifies the emergency situation and dispatches the proper emergency vehicle (ambulance, helicopter, life-support vehicle, among other) along with medical staff. Each vehicle is equipped to deal with different situations from light injuries to life-support.

ImproveOR - Decision support tools for better quality in operating rooms management

The ImproveOR project aims at improving efficiency in surgical care delivery and at improving access to surgical care, as a result of an increase of the operating room responsiveness to surgical demand and a better coordination between surgical supply and demand. Decision support tools are developed combining optimization approaches to assist resource capacity planning decisions in the operating room with structured participatory approaches to capture stakeholders’ views and preferences regarding the surgical patient flows and the planning and scheduling of surgeries.

Contacts

CEGIST - Centro de Estudos de Gestão
do Instituto Superior Técnico

Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 77 29 (ext. 1729)
Fax: +351 21 841 79 79
E-mail: cegist@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Sponsored by
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Financed by Portuguese funds through the 
FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., 
under the projects UIDB/00097/2020 and UIDP/00097/2020

Host Institution
IST Lisboa