Office: RSB 237
Phone: (804) 287-6643
Fax: (804) 289-8878
Email: sthomps3@richmond.edu

Teaching:
Information Systems

Research:
Health Systems Engineering
Healthcare Information Systems (design and modeling)
Data Security
Disaster Response

Education:
BS, The University of Connecticut
MBA, The University of Connecticut
PhD, The University of Connecticut

Selected Publications:
Efficient Short Term Allocation and Re-allocation of Patients to Floors of a Hospital During Demand Surges, with Robert Garfinkel, Manuel Nunez, and Matthew Dean,  Operations Research (forthcoming); An Alternative Strategy for Building Sales of Computers: Generic Advertising, with Yanbin Tu and Min Lu, Journal of Business and Economics Research (forthcoming); Advancing Information Technology in Healthcare: Just What the Doctor Ordered, with Matthew Dean, Communications of the ACM (forthcoming); Releasing Individually Identifiable Microdata With Privacy Protection Against Stochastic Threat: An Application to Health Information, with Rob Garfinkel and Ram Gopal, Information Systems Research (2007); Improving Disaster Response Efforts with Decision Support Systems, with Nezih Altay and Walter Green, International Journal of Emergency Management (2006); Managing Risks in Multiple Online Auctions: An Options Approach, with Ram Gopal, Y. Alex Tung and Andrew B. Whinston, Decision Sciences (2005).

Academic and Professional Activities:
Member: AIS, INFORMS, DSI

Awards:
Hall of Fame inductee, University of Connecticut Business School, (Apr. 2005); Dunn & Bradstreet Research Fellowship (summer 2004); University of Connecticut Business School Summer Research Fellowship (summer 2003); University of Connecticut Tuition Fellowship (1999-2005); University of Connecticut Business School Deans Fellowship (summer 2003); The Treibick Electronic Commerce Initiative, Research Fellowship (summer 2001); Salutatorian, University of Connecticut MBA program (2001)