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Yawo Kobara CV

Yawo Mamoua Kobara, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Supply Chain Management & Data Analytics
ykobara@uwindsor.ca
519-253-3000 ext. 4227
Office: OB 457

Academic Degrees 

  • Ph.D.  Western University, Statistics, 2022.
  • M.Sc.  WorldQuant University, New Orleans, LA, Financial Engineering, 2021.
  • M.Sc.  African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Mbour, Senegal, Mathematical Sciences, 2017.
  • B.Sc. Bachelor of Science, University for Development Studies, Navrongo, Ghana, Statistics, 2015.

Employment Experience 

  • Assistant Professor, Odette School of Business, University of Windsor (July 2023-Present)
  • ​Online Instructor, World Quant University (October 2021-Present), New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • Post-Doctoral Teaching and Research Fellow, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (September 2022-June 2023), Toronto.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Western Ontario (September 2017-June 2022), London, Canada.
  • Course Instructor, Western University (January 2020-Apri, 2020), London, Canada.
  • Teaching Assistant (student), University for Development Studies (September 2015-June 2016), Tamale, Ghana.

INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Journal Articles 

  • Kobara, Y. M. (2024).  The International Journal of Healthcare Management (IJHM): Ten years after rebranding, a biblometric analysis and recommendations for improvement.   International Journal of Healthcare Management. [March]  https://doi.org/10.1080/20479700.2024.2312632.
  • Kobara, Y. M., & Akpan, I. J. (2023).  Bibliometric performance and future relevance of virtual manufacturing technology in the fourth industrial revolution.   Systems, 11 (10), 524. [September]  https://doi.org/10.3390/systems11100524.
  • Kobara, Y. M., Rodrigues, F., de Souza, C., & Stanford, D. (2023).  ICU patient flow: To premature step-down or not?   International Journal of Healthcare Management.  [October]  https://doi.org/10.1080/20479700.2023.2266637.
  • Kobara, Y. M., Wismer, M., Rodrigues, F. F., & de Souza, C. P. (2023).  Invasive mechanical ventilation during prediction using survival analysis.   International Journal of Healthcare Management.  [December]  https://doi.org/10.1080/20479700.2023.2295111.
  • Akpan, I. J., McEnroe-Petitte, D. M., Aguolu, O. G., Kobara, Y., & Ezeume, I. E. (2023).  Using visualization technique to communicate the conceptual structure of SARS-CoV-2 to multidisciplinary audience and lessons from the pandemic for future preparedness.   International Journal of Healthcare Management. [July]  https://doi.org/10.1080/20479700.2023.2235786.
  • Kobara, Y. M., Rodrigues, F. F., de Souza, C. E., & Sanford, D. A. (2022).  Intensive care unit/step-down unit queuing game with length of stay decisions.   Operations Research for Health Care, 34.  September]  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orhc.2022.100349.
  • Akpan, I. J.; Aguolu, O. G., Kobara, Y. M., Razavi, R., Akpan, A. A. & Shanker, Rm (2021).  Association between what people learned about COVID-19 using web searches and their behavior toward public health guidelines: Empirical infodemiology study.   Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23 (9). [September] http://doi.org/10.2196/28975.
  • Kobara, Y. M.; Katara, S. & Issahaku, A. (2020).  Statistical analysis and vector auto regressive model for minimum and maximum temperature.   International Journal of Advanced Research and Publication.  

Presentations 

  • Kobara, Y. M. (2024). Addressing Challenges in Healthcare.  Breakfast with the Dean, Windsor, Canada-Ontario.
  • Kobara, Y. M. (2023, October). Intensive care unit / step down unit length of stay decisions: A queuing game approach.  CanQueue 2023, Montreal.
  • Kobara, Y. M. (2023, July). Healthcare system capacity mining: A data-driven approach.  INFORMS Healthcare 2023, Toronto.
  • Kobara, Y. M. (2022, May). Data-driven capacity estimation in a healthcare system.  CORS (Canadian Operational Research Society) Conference, Montreal.
  • Kobara, Y. M. (2022). The spatial dependence of resilience and its determinants: A spatial analysis of Canadian regions' resilience to the Great Recession.  Applied Geography Conference.
  • Kobara, Y. M. (2021, October). Intensive care unit / step down unit length of stay decisions: A queuing game approach.  CanQueue 2021, Montreal.
  • Kobara, Y. M.; Rodrigues, F. F. & Stanford, D. (2021, June). ICU discharge policy under down stream congestion: An MDP model based on NEMS.  CORS (Canadian Operational Research Society) 2021, Virtual.
  • Kobara, Y. M. (2020, June). Patient flow policies in the ICU/SDU system.  Strathmore International Mathematics Conference, Virtual.
  • Kobara, Y. M. (2019, August). ICU discharge policy under down stream congestion.  CanQueue 2019, Toronto.
  • Kobara, Y. M. (2019, August). Queuing perspective on patients flow in Canadian health care systems.  CanQueue 2019, Toronto.