Dionne Aleman, PhD

Affiliated Faculty, Techna Institute for the Advancement of Technology for Health (Techna)
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Keywords: data mining, mathematical modelling, radiation therapy, treatment planning
Dionne Aleman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida (2007), MSc from the University of Florida (2006), and BSc from the University of Florida (2003).
Dr. Aleman's research interests are in the application of operations research to medical and healthcare systems. This research includes using mathematical optimization models to design radiation therapy treatment plans, using agent-based simulation to predict the spread of a pandemic disease in an urban population, using graph theory to determine vaccination priorities during a pandemic, and using optimization and simulation to improve hospital surgical scheduling.

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Analysis of emergency department length of stay for mental health visits: A case study of a Canadian academic hospital.
CJEM. 2018 Aug 28;:1-10
Baia Medeiros DT, Hahn-Goldberg S, O'Connor E, Aleman DM
Modeling and comparison of alternative approaches for sector duration optimization in a dedicated radiosurgery system.
Phys Med Biol. 2018 Jul 04;:
Cevik M, Shirvani Ghomi P, Aleman DM, Lee Y, Berdyshev A, Nordstrom H, Riad S, Sahgal A, Ruschin M
Guided Undersampling Classification for Automated Radiation Therapy Quality Assurance of Prostate Cancer Treatment.
Med Phys. 2018 Jan 29;:
Brown WE, Sung K, Aleman DM, Moreno-Centeno E, Purdie TG, McIntosh CJ
SU-F-T-15: Evaluation of 192Ir, 60Co and 169Yb Sources for High Dose Rate Prostate Brachytherapy Inverse Planning Using An Interior Point Constraint Generation Algorithm.
Med Phys. 2016 Jun;43(6):3464-3465
Mok Tsze Chung E, Safigholi H, Nicolae A, Davidson M, Ravi A, Aleman D, Song W
Robotic path-finding in inverse treatment planning for stereotactic radiosurgery with continuous dose delivery.
Med Phys. 2016 Aug;43(8):4545
Vandewouw MM, Aleman DM, Jaffray DA
Data mining in bone marrow transplant records to identify patients with high odds of survival.
IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2014 Jan;18(1):21-7
Taati B, Snoek J, Aleman D, Ghavamzadeh A
Automated treatment planning for a dedicated multi-source intra-cranial radiosurgery treatment unit accounting for overlapping structures and dose homogeneity.
Med Phys. 2013 Sep;40(9):091715
Ghobadi K, Ghaffari HR, Aleman DM, Jaffray DA, Ruschin M
Reducing elective general surgery cancellations at a Canadian hospital.
Can J Surg. 2013 Apr;56(2):113-8
Azari-Rad S, Yontef AL, Aleman DM, Urbach DR
Automated treatment planning for a dedicated multi-source intracranial radiosurgery treatment unit using projected gradient and grassfire algorithms.
Med Phys. 2012 Jun;39(6):3134-41
Ghobadi K, Ghaffari HR, Aleman DM, Jaffray DA, Ruschin M
A set cover approach to fast beam orientation optimization in intensity modulated radiation therapy for total marrow irradiation.
Phys Med Biol. 2011 Sep 7;56(17):5679-95
Lee CH, Aleman DM, Sharpe MB

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