Jeong Hoon Choi, Ph.D.

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Education

• Ph.D. in Supply Chain & Operations Management, The State University of New York at Buffalo, September 2011.
• M.S. in Supply Chain & Operations Management, The State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007.
• M.B.A., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2006.
• B.B.A., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2000.

Biography

Professional & Academic Experience

Academic Experience:

• Assistant Professor, The University of Akron, College of Business Administration, Akron, OH (2011 – Present)
• Instructor, MGO 302 Operations Management, Summer 2009, School of Management, The State University of New York at Buffalo.

Business Experience:

• Optimum Management Consulting / Strategy & Execution (2004 to 2006).
• Accenture (Formerly known as the Andersen Consulting), Seoul Office (2000 to 2004).

Academic and Business Affiliations:

• Decision Sciences Institute (DSI).
• The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
• Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
• The Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM).

Research Interests

• Strategic Sourcing and its impact on supply chain performance.
• Supply chain design and its relation to system reliability.
• Supply chain disruption risk - antecedents and mitigation factors for disruptions.
• Productivity Theories.
• Health care operations.

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Research Accomplishments

Refereed Journal Articles:

• Winston T. Lin, Chia-Hung Chuang, Jeong Hoon Choi, "A partial adjustment approach to evaluating and measuring the business value of information technology," International Journal of Production Economics (2010), 127,pp. 158-172.

Papers in Progress:

• Jeong Hoon Choi and Nallan Suresh, "The cost efficiency of hospitals in the United States between 1996 and 2008".
• Jeong Hoon Choi and Nallan Suresh, "Data Envelopment Analysis on efficiencies in the health care industry".
• Jeong Hoon Choi and Nallan Suresh, "Empirical research on strategic purchasing in the health care industry".
• Natalie Simpson and Jeong Hoon Choi, "Improved Heuristic Methods for Multiple-Stage Production Planning using reverse-NIPPA (Non-sequential Incremental Part Period Algorithm)"
• Winston T. Lin, Jeong Hoon Choi, Chia-Hung Chuang, "A partial adjustment to evaluating and measuring the business value of information technology: the case of approach dynamic and variable speed adjustment

Conference Presentations & Activities:

• "An empirical research on supply chain management in health care industry", Decision Science Institute Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2008.
• "The cost efficiency of hospitals in the United States between 1996 and 2008", Decision Science Institute Conference, San Diego, CA, 2010.
• "A partial adjustment to evaluating and measuring the business value of information technology: the case of dynamic and variable speed of adjustment", Decision Science Institute Conference, Boston, MA, Nov 2011.

Awards

• Invited to New Faculty Development Consortium, Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual Conference, MA, 2011
• Invited to Doctoral Student Consortium, Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual Conference, San Diego, 2010
• Reviewer for DSI Conference Submissions (2010-2011)
• Full Scholarship from School of Management at University at Buffalo (Fall 2007-Spring 2011)