Na (Lina) Li

Biography

My background is in statistics and operations research for Health Care. I am a data and statistical scientist in medical applications. I completed my PhD in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at Western University in February 2016, then worked as a biostatistician at the McMaster Centre for Transfusion Research for three years. I had a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Computing and Software at McMaster University in 2020 on a blood demand forecasting and inventory management project in collaboration with Canadian Blood Services. I become a new faculty member in the Department of Community Health Sciences at University of Calgary in January 2021. I am an enthusiastic researcher in applying data science and operations research in health care studies. My research interests are in the areas of operations research, mathematical modelling, applied statistics, data science and applications of statistical methods for healthcare researches. I work closely with transfusion medicine research groups and Canadian Blood Services on multiple projects across provinces.

Publications

A decision integration strategy for short-term demand forecasting and ordering for red blood cell components

N Li, F Chiang, DG Down, NM Heddle

arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.07486

Predictors of Bleeding in the Perioperative Anticoagulant Use for Surgery Evaluation Study

AJ Tafur, NP Clark, AC Spyropoulos, N Li, E Kaplovitch, K MacDougall, ...

Journal of the American Heart Association 9 (19), e017316

A Non-Inferiority Trial of Perioperative Eltrombopag or Intravenous Immune Globulin for Immune Thrombocytopenia

D Arnold, A Tinmouth, NM Heddle, RJ Cook, C Hsia, M Blostein, E Jamula, ...

Optimising key performance indicator adherence with application to emergency department congestion

N Li, DA Stanford, AB Sharif, RJ Caron, A Pardhan

European Journal of Operational Research 272 (1), 313-323

Nonlinear accumulating priority queues with equivalent linear proxies

N Li, DA Stanford, P Taylor, I Ziedins

Operations Research 65 (6), 1712-1721

Multi-server accumulating priority queues with heterogeneous servers

N Li, DA Stanford

European Journal of Operational Research 252 (3), 866-878