Professor of Health Care and Operations Management, Boston University School of Management Director, Program for Management of Variability in Health Care Delivery, Boston University Health Policy Institute

Eugene Litvak, Ph.D. is a Professor of Health Care and Operations Management and Director of the "Program for the Management of Variability in Health Care Delivery" at Boston University Health Policy Institute. He received his doctorate in Operations Research from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1977. Prior to joining SMG he was a faculty member at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis in the Department of Health Policy & Management at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Dr. Litvak arrived in the U.S. in 1988, and joined HSPH in 1990. Prior to that time he was a chief of the Operations Management Group at the Computing Center in Kiev, Ukraine.

His research interests include operations management in health care delivery organizations, cost-effective medical decision making, screening for HIV and other infectious diseases, and operations research. Professor Litvak is an author of more than 50 publications in these areas. He was the co-author of the new protocols in screening for HIV and hepatitis, which reduce the cost of screening by a factor of 5 to 10 while simultaneously reducing errors by a factor of 20 to 40. These protocols have been positively evaluated by FDA, NIH and CDC, and currently are the subject of a large-scale international trial supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development as well as Chiron and Roche pharmaceutical companies.

Since 1995 he has collaborated with Dr. Michael Long in the development and practical application of innovative variability methodology for cost reduction and quality improvement in health care delivery systems. Professor Litvak was a Principal Investigator in recent "Emergency Room Diversion Study" supported by the grant from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee “The Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System“.

He is also Principal Investigator in many hospital operations improvement studies. He is a senior faculty of the Institute for Health Care Improvement He also serves as a consultant on operations improvement to several major hospitals.

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