Congratulations to Jennifer Mason, a current Ph.D. student in ISE, who is a recipient of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) doctoral dissertation grant. The AHRQ is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and its members provide extensive health services research, specializing in major health care areas such as quality improvement and patient safety, outcomes and effectiveness of care, clinical practice and technology assessment, and health care organization and delivery systems.
Jennifer received a Masters degree in Operations Research in 2009 from NCSU. She now works along with Dr. Brian Denton, focusing on medical decision making applications, specifically optimal treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes.