Principle Investigator
Dr. Durward Sobek of Montana State University
Dr. Sobek has extensive experience with qualitative research
methods, and is intimately familiar with TPS and with classical industrial
engineering methods for process improvement.
He also has 4 ½ years of instructional experience involving significant
course development. He is a participant-observer of weekly TPS meetings;
leads the data collection, analysis, and documentation activities; supervises
graduate and undergraduate industrial engineering students; and co-leads training
materials development.
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Co-Principle Investigator
Cindy Jimmerson of Community Medical Center
Cindy is a registered nurse with 30 years experience in trauma
care. She is now a member of the
Quality and Risk Management department and plays an instrumental role in CMC improvement
initiatives. She also has over 20
years experience developing workshops on designing systems to treat acute trauma
cases, and has delivered them at numerous locations in the US and Central
America. She is the
facilitator of the TPS implementation team at pilot units; mentors the units as
managers and charge nurses transition to facilitator roles in their respective
units; leads collection of assessment data; provides additional observation data;
facilitates access to hospital data and personnel; and co-leads training materials
development.
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Graduate Research Assistant
Manimay Ghosh of Montana State University
Manimay comes to MSU with over 15 years of manufacturing
experience. He holds an MS IE degree from MSU and an MBA from Bloomberg
University. He is interested in operations management, specifically
enabling organizations to learn how to learn, and how organizations can
self-sustain continuous improvement. He also has an interest in applying
lean manufacturing and other IE principles to health care.
