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Ayse Gurses, Assistant Professor

Ayse Gürses, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005

M.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1999

B.S., Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 1997

gurse001@umn.edu

Office Phone: 612-625-2302

 
Ayse Gürses is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management. Her research area is human factors engineering in healthcare.

Her current research focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of information technology to improve coordination, communication, teamwork and patient safety in healthcare organizations; the impact of work system design on clinical workload, quality of working life, and patient safety; and socio-technical aspects of healthcare information technology.

Selected Publications

Papers in journals (published and accepted)
1. Carayon P., and Gurses A.P. A human factors engineering conceptual framework of nursing workload and patient safety in intensive care units. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Journal, 21(5): 284-301, 2005.
2. Gurses, A.P., and Xiao, Y. A systematic review of the literature on multidisciplinary rounds to design information technology, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Accepted, January 2006.

Manuscripts under review
1. Gurses, A.P., and Carayon, P. A qualitative study of performance obstacles and facilitators among intensive care nurses. Revise-resubmit, Human Factors, 2006.
2. Carayon P., Hundt A., Karsh B., Gurses A.P., Alvarado C., Smith M and Brennan P. “Work system and patient safety: The SEIPS Model and Design Approach”. Submitted to Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2005.

Manuscripts in preparation
1. Gurses, A.P. and Carayon P. Identifying performance obstacles among intensive care nurses. To be submitted to Nursing Research.
2. Gurses, A.P. and Carayon P. Testing the impact of performance obstacles on intensive care nursing workload, quality of working life, and quality and safety of care. To be submitted to Applied Ergonomics.

Book chapter
1. Carayon, P., Gurses, A.P., Hundt, A. S., Ayoub, P., & Alvarado, C. J. Performance obstacles and facilitators of healthcare providers. In C. Korunka & P. Hoffmann (Eds.), Change and Quality in Human Service Work (Vol. Volume 4). Munchen, Germany: Hampp Publishers, p. 257-276, 2005.

Report
1. Gurses, A.P. ICU Nursing Workload: Causes and Consequences. Final report, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2005.

Conference papers and abstracts
1. Gurses, A.P. and Carayon, P. Impact of Performance Obstacles on Nursing Workload in Intensive Care Units. Accepted for presentation in the 16th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, July 2006, Maastricht, Netherlands.
2. Gurses, A.P. and Carayon, P. Identifying performance obstacles among intensive care nurses. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s 49th Annual Meeting, p. 1019-1023, September 26-30, 2005, Orlando, Florida.
3. Gurses, A.P., and Carayon, P. Work obstacles and facilitators, workload, quality of working life, and quality of care among intensive care nurses Proceedings of the Wisconsin Quality and Safety Forum, October 18-19, 2004, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
4. Gurses, A.P., and Carayon, P. Evaluating work obstacles and facilitators for intensive care nurses. Presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October 19-22, 2003 (abstract).
5. Carayon, P., Hundt, A., Ayoub, P., Gurses, A., and Alvarado, C. Performance obstacles of health care providers. Presented at the Eighth European Conference on Organizational Psychology and Health Care, Vienna, Austria, October 8-11, 2003. (abstract).
6. Carayon, P., and Gurses, A. A preliminary study of performance obstacles and facilitators of ICU nurses. Presented at the European Society for Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (ESCTAIC) Conference, Berlin, Germany, October 1-4, 2003 (abstract).
7. Carayon, P., Alvarado C., Brennan P., Gurses A., Hundt A., Karsh B. and Smith M. Work system and patient safety. Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Human Factors in Organizational Design and Management (ODAM), p. 583-588, Aachen, Germany, October 1-2, 2003.
8. Gurses, A.P., and Carayon, P. Workload, quality of working life, and quality of care among intensive care nurses. Presented at the EURO/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, July 6-10, 2003 (abstract).
9. Gurses, A.P. and Sullivan, W.G. An activity-based costing and theory of constraints model for product-mix decisions. INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 17-20, 2002, San Jose, California (abstract).
10. Nembhard, H.B., Nembhard, D., and Gurses, A.P. Real options modeling for valuing worker flexibility. Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Annual Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 19-22, 2002.

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, January 2007-Present
Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Research Assistant Professor, October 2005-January 2007
Human Factors and Technology Research Group, Department of Anesthesiology and Program in Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, March 2005-September 2005
Human Factors and Technology Research Group, Department of Anesthesiology and Program in Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, American Medical Informatics Association, INFORMS, Institute of Industrial Engineering, Academy Health, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, American Society for Quality, Academy of Management, Graduate Women in Science

Honors and Awards

INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium participant, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 2003

Graduate Student Mentor Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2003

Vilas Travel Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003

Conference Travel Grant, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003

 

 
 
 
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