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Latest papers
Red blood cell inventory management: Insights from transfusion laboratory technologists in British Columbia, Canada.
Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) · 2025
Discrete event simulation model of an acute stroke treatment process at a comprehensive stroke center: Determining the ideal improvement strategies for reducing treatment times.
Journal of the neurological sciences · 2025
Optimizing Access to Unrelated Donors in Canada: Re-Examining the Importance of Donor Factors on Outcomes Following Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.
Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024
Latest funding
- $120,000
Integrating Individual-Level and System-Level Modelling to Evaluate Waitlist Management Strategies for Continuing Care Homes
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
- $67,215
Just Transition for Cellular Agriculture: A Pilot Modelling Analysis
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $78,000
Improving Canada's blood network using operational research
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
10 publications.
Red blood cell inventory management: Insights from transfusion laboratory technologists in British Columbia, Canada.
Dhahan J, Morrison D, Shih AW, McDonald D, Chen R, Hao L, Rosinski K, Buchko S, Blake J, Rutherford A
Discrete event simulation model of an acute stroke treatment process at a comprehensive stroke center: Determining the ideal improvement strategies for reducing treatment times.
Koca G, Blake J, Gubitz G, Kamal N
Optimizing Access to Unrelated Donors in Canada: Re-Examining the Importance of Donor Factors on Outcomes Following Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.
Parmar G, Seftel MD, Ganz K, Blake J, Holovati JL, Allan DS
HLA-haplotype redundancy and rareness in Canadian Blood Services' Stem Cell Registry and Cord Blood Bank: Novel metrics for optimizing utility.
Bailey AJM, Blake J, Ganz K, Seftel MD, Allan DS
Modelling consumers' choice of novel food.
Skinner D, Blake J
From demand forecasting to inventory ordering decisions for red blood cells through integrating machine learning, statistical modeling, and inventory optimization
Li N, Arnold DM, Down DG, Barty R, Blake J, Chiang F, Courtney T, Waito M, Trifunov R, Heddle NM
Discrete-Event Simulation to Model the Thrombolysis Process for Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients at Urban and Rural Hospitals.
Bulmer T, Volders D, Blake J, Kamal N
Transitioning to Full Field Digital Mammography in Nova Scotia: Using Interrupted Time Series Methods to Study the Impact of Technology Change on Mammography Volumes.
Brydon M, Kephart G, Payne JI, Blake J
Designing the blood supply chain: how much, how and where?
Osorio AF, Brailsford SC, Smith HK, Blake J
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
Blake J, Nemergut EC
Integrating Individual-Level and System-Level Modelling to Evaluate Waitlist Management Strategies for Continuing Care Homes
Principal investigators: Wiggins, Megan
Keywords: Continuing Care; Health Systems Research; Operations Research; Optimization; Simulation; Waitlist Management
Just Transition for Cellular Agriculture: A Pilot Modelling Analysis
Principal investigators: Blake, John
Keywords: Cellular agriculture; Just Transition Planning; Food Systems Transitions; Climate Resilient Food Systems; Agro-biodiversity; Supply Chain Modeling
Improving Canada's blood network using operational research
Principal investigators: Blake, John
Keywords: blood production; inventory management; stem cells; simulation; optimization; simulation optimization
Atlantic Canada Together Enhancing Acute Stroke Treatment (ACTEAST): Improving Access and Efficiency of Treatment
Principal investigators: Kamal, Noreen R
Keywords: Alteplase Treatment; Endovascular Treatment; Health Systems; Implementation Science; Ischemic Stroke; Operations Research; Quality Improvement; Simulation
Using operational research methods to improve decision making in Canada's blood supply chain
Principal investigators: Blake, John
Integration of Simulation and Optimization Methods to Improve Utilization of Ore Processing Mills
Principal investigators: Gunn, Eldon
Robust reusable reliable models for health care optimization
Principal investigators: Blake, John
ACE-An advanced computational environment for supply chain management
Principal investigators: Venkatadri, Uday
Applications of operational research to canada's blood supply chain
Principal investigators: Blake, John
Strategic, administrative and operational planning models in hospital management
Principal investigators: Blake, John
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Donald Arnold and Nancy Heddle: 95 shared papers
- Donald Arnold and Na Li: 47 shared papers
- Na Li and Nancy Heddle: 35 shared papers
- Douglas G Down and Na Li: 19 shared papers
- Douglas G Down and Nancy Heddle: 11 shared papers
- Donald Arnold and Douglas G Down: 9 shared papers
- Fei Chiang and Douglas G Down: 4 shared papers
- Fei Chiang and Na Li: 3 shared papers
- Fei Chiang and Nancy Heddle: 3 shared papers
- Noreen Kamal and John Blake: 2 shared papers
- Donald Arnold and John Blake: 1 shared paper
- Fei Chiang and John Blake: 1 shared paper
- Douglas G Down and John Blake: 1 shared paper
- Na Li and John Blake: 1 shared paper
- Nancy Heddle and John Blake: 1 shared paper
- George Kephart and John Blake: 1 shared paper
- Computing and Software
- Industrial Engineering
- Medicine
- Community Health and Epidemiology
Co-authors at Dalhousie University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Noreen Kamal
Industrial Engineering
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Fei Chiang
Computing and Software
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Douglas G Down
Computing and Software
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Donald Arnold
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Nancy Heddle
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
George Kephart
Community Health and Epidemiology
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Na Li
Computing and Software
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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