Bio
David Scheinker is the Director of Systems Design and Collaborative Research at the Stanford Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. He is the Founder and Director of SURF Stanford Medicine, a group that brings together students and faculty from the university with physicians, nurses, and administrators from the hospitals to improve the quality of care using operations research methodology. He received a PhD in theoretical math from The University of California San Diego under Jim Agler. Before coming to Stanford, he was a Joint Research Fellow at The MIT Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts General Hospital. His current areas of research include applications of operations research in healthcare, healthcare policy, mathematical control theory, and functional analysis. He advises Carta Healthcare, a healthcare analytics company started by former students.
Administrative Appointments
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Founder and Director, SURF Stanford Medicine (2015 - Present)
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Executive Director of Systems Design and Collaborative Research, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford (2015 - Present)
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Faculty, Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) (2018 - Present)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Advisor, Carta Healthcare (2017 - Present)