Thierry Chaussalet
Professor of Healthcare Modelling
University of Westminster
Health and Social Care Modelling Group
www.healthcareinformatics.org.uk
After receiving a PhD from North Carolina State University (USA) in Probability and Stochastic Processes, Thierry started his career in the UK as a lecturer in Decision Sciences. With a growing interest in modelling health and social care, he co-founded in 1998, with a highly respected geriatrician Professor Peter Millard, the Health and Social Care Modelling Group at the University of Westminster. In 2007, he became Professor of Healthcare Modelling. His research interests lie in the development and application of operational research and analytics techniques to improve healthcare management.
Thierry serves on the Editorial Board of various health services research and modelling journals including Health Care Management Science and BMC Health Services Research, and has edited several special issues of internationally recognised journals. He is member of the NIHR Peer Preview panel, was member of the EPSRC Peer Review College 2006-16 and expert evaluator for the EU FP7 ICT programme. Keen promoter of the use of modelling and simulation for the management of healthcare, he is also Chair of the Operational Research Health and Social Services Special Interest Group, and founding member of the Cumberland Initiative, and MASHnet, the UK network for Modelling And Simulation in Healthcare.
