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Elena
Tanfani

Affiliate Professor

Department of Operations and Decision Systems
FSA ULaval

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Transport Economics (Ph. D.), University of Genoa
  • Degree in Economics (Oth), University of Genoa

Publications

Articles

  • Landa, P., Tanfani, E., Mattia, S., Ghafourian-Nasiri, M., Murazzano, L., & Bergeron, F. (2026). Application of staff rostering algorithms for emergency departments: protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open, 16(8), e121962. DOI : 10.1136/bmjopen-2026-121962
  • Landa, P., Murazzano, L., Resta, M., Tanfani, E., & Testi, A. (2026). A hybrid simulation framework for reducing emergency patient boarding. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 38(2), 963-1001. DOI : 10.1007/s10696-025-09633-6
  • Gartner, J.-B., Landa, P., Haren, M. T., Lemaire, C., Tanfani, E., Paquet, C., Bergeron, F., & Côté, A. (2026). The implementation of a business process model and notation for modeling patient health care trajectories: Systematic review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 28, e78506. DOI : 10.2196/78506
  • Carello, G., Passacantando, M., & Tanfani, E. (2025). Interday and intraday chemotherapy appointment scheduling: A patient-centered approach. European Journal of Operational Research, 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2025.12.023
  • Addis, B., Carello, G., & Tanfani, E. (2024). Evaluating the impact of the level of robustness in operating room scheduling problems. Healthcare, 12(20). DOI : 10.3390/healthcare12202023
  • Alderighi, S., Landa, P., Tanfani, E., & Testi, A. (2024). Assessing the impact of patient characteristics on genetic clinical pathways: A regression approach. Algorithms, 17(2), 75. DOI : 10.3390/a17020075
  • Landa, P., Lalonde, J.-D., Bergeron, F., Said Abasse, K., Côté, A., Gartner, J.-B., Tanfani, E., & Resta, M. (2023). Impact of primary health care reforms in Quebec Health Care System: a systematic literature review protocol. BMJ Open, 13(7), e068666. DOI : 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068666
  • Carello, G., Landa, P., Tanfani, E., & Testi, A. (2022). Master chemotherapy planning and clinicians rostering in a hospital outpatient cancer centre. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 30(1), 159-187. DOI : 10.1007/s10100-021-00786-x

Chapters in Collective Works

  • Landa, P., Gartner, J.-B., Haren, M., Lemaire, C., Said Abasse, K., Paquet, C., Bergeron, F., Tanfani, E., & Côté, A. (2023). An overview of benefits and limitations of process model notation applied for modeling patient healthcare trajectory. In Aringhieri, R., Maggioni, F., Lanzarone, E. , Reuter-Oppermann, M., Righini, G., & Vespucci, M. T. (Eds.). Operations Research for Health Care in Red Zone - ORAHS 2022 (pp. 19-33). Springer. doi : 10.1007/978-3-031-38537-7_3.
  • Landa, P., Resta, M., Tanfani, E., & Testi, A. (2022). Advances in Modelling Hospital Medical Wards. In Lim, CP., Vaidya, A., Chen, YW., Jain, T., Jain, L. C. (Ed). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Healthcare. Intelligent Systems Reference Library (pp. 171-183). Springer. doi : 10.1007/978-3-031-11154-9_9.

Communications in a Conference with Proceedings

  • Landa, P., La Regina, M., Tanfani, E., Orlandini, F., Campanini, M., Fontanella, A., Manfellotto, D., & Testi, A. (2020). Modelling hospital internal medical wards to address patient complexity: A case-based simulation-optimization approach. Health Care Systems Engineering.

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