Profile
M. Gabriela Sava is an assistant professor in the Department of Management in the Wilbur O and Ann Powers College of Business at Clemson University. Her research is focused on all aspects of healthcare analytics, particularly the application of decision models to problems associated with preventive healthcare services. As healthcare providers shift their focus from treatment to prevention, the preventive healthcare services area offers a variety of opportunities for study from an analytical perspective. A better understanding of the field could help in the design of improved preventive healthcare services and policies that would be simultaneously patient-centered, personalized, and cost-efficient. Gabriela is the Winner of the 2020 INFORMS MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award and of the 2021 Graduate Teaching Excellence Award from Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business. Gabriela was awarded the 2017 One-year Accelerate(OYA) grant from Clemson University, the 2018 Transformative Research Seed Grant, Greenville Health System, Health Sciences Center and the 2020 Summer Research grant from Clemson University. Gabriela is a member of INFORMS, DSI, POMS, IISE, SMDM and she is a reviewer for Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering.