Jorge A. Acuña

Office: A-215

Av. Padre Hurtado 750

Viña del Mar, Chile

Jorge Acuña is an Assistant Professor of Operations Research and the director/founder of the Health Systems Engineering Laboratory (HSE Lab) at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. He also holds a Courtesy Assistant Professor position in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF). His research is built upon the intersection of operations research and healthcare systems to improve patient outcomes and access.

Professor Acuña has a track record of developing innovative mathematical models anchored in optimization, game theory, and stochastic programming to address critical health issues. Current research activities focus on emergency department overcrowding, waiting lists, health investment, food waste, length of stay, surgery schedule, kidney transplants, and emergency medical services.

He received his Ph.D. (2021) and MSc. (2018) in Industrial Engineering from USF and a B.S. in Civil Industrial Engineering from Universidad de La Frontera in 2015. Over the past few years, he has lectured medical students on operations research and mentored engineering doctoral and master students.

news

Oct 02, 2024	Dr. Acuña has been selected for the 2024 Ambassadors Program at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. The program will fund his upcoming visit to USF in October.
Jun 14, 2024	Master’s students Sofía Zúñiga and Enzo Escuti have been granted the Thesis Support Program for Technology Maturation. These funds will accelerate the development of solutions for the societal problems addressed in their theses.

selected publications

Spr.Nature-Q1

The waiting game–how cooperation between public and private hospitals can help reduce waiting lists

Jorge A Acuna, José L Zayas-Castro, Felipe Feijoo, and 3 more authors

Health Care Management Science, 2022

Bib HTML

@article{acuna2022waiting,
  title = {The waiting game--how cooperation between public and private hospitals can help reduce waiting lists},
  author = {Acuna, Jorge A and Zayas-Castro, Jos{\'e} L and Feijoo, Felipe and Sankaranarayanan, Sriram and Martinez, Rodrigo and Martinez, Diego A},
  journal = {Health Care Management Science},
  pages = {1--26},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.1007/s10729-021-09577-x},
  publisher = {Springer Nature}
}

Elsevier-Q1

A two-stage stochastic game model for elective surgical capacity planning and investment

Jorge A Acuna, Daniela Cantarino, Rodrigo Martinez, and 1 more author

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2024

Bib HTML

@article{acuna2024two,
  title = {A two-stage stochastic game model for elective surgical capacity planning and investment},
  author = {Acuna, Jorge A and Cantarino, Daniela and Martinez, Rodrigo and Zayas-Castro, Jos{\'e} L},
  journal = {Socio-Economic Planning Sciences},
  volume = {91},
  pages = {101786},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1016/j.seps.2023.101786},
  publisher = {Elsevier}
}