Carey Assistant Prof. Receives JHU Discovery Award for Research

Tinglong Dai, Carey Business School Assistant Professor, is set to receive university funding in a new program supporting cross-divisional research. Twenty-three teams of JHU scholars have been selected for the new Discovery Award initiative, which has committed $15 million to cross-university, faculty-led research over three years.

Dai’s project — that he is completing alongside Chao-Wei Hwang of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine — is titled “Clinical Decision Ambiguity and Conflicts of Interests on Decision-Making in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.” Dai joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2013 and is  research track with expertise in the areas of Healthcare Operations Management, Marketing-Operations Interfaces, and Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces. Dai was also the first First Place Winner in the 2012 POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Competition.

The Discovery Awards program was launched earlier this year by JHU President Ronald J. Daniels, Provost Robert C. Lieberman, and the deans and directors of the academic divisions. Teams could apply for up to $100,000 to explore a new area of collaborative work, or request up to $150,000 in project planning funds if they are preparing for an externally funded large-scale grant or cooperative agreement. The awards were intended to spark new interactions among investigators across the university rather than support established projects.

“The number of applicants and the breadth of their ideas was thrilling to see,” Daniels said. “It speaks to our community’s desire to transcend barriers to collaboration and find bracing approaches to research questions. It is vital that we support these ambitious, cross-divisional teams, particularly as other funding remains difficult to secure.”

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