Welcome to Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling

The Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling was created to enhance the University’s capabilities in the application of mathematical models to our understanding of disease and the heath care system’s response. We apply a wide array of methods from the decision sciences (decision and cost-effectiveness analysis, simulation modeling, discrete event simulation and other mathematic techniques) to understanding clinical systems. We define clinical system quite broadly, incorporating the modeling of a disease or treatment in the “system” of an individual cell, organ, patient, population, or health care delivery system. To achieve this goal, the section currently concentrates in three major areas: 1) the development and advancement of methodological techniques used to model disease and biological processes, 2) the application of existing techniques to important problems in health and medicine, and 3) the training of clinicians and others in the use and application of decision sciences techniques.