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Deo, Sarang

Professor, Operations Management
Executive Director - Max Institute of Healthcare Management

Email: sarang_deo@isb.edu
Personal Website: sites.google.com/a/isb.edu/sarangdeo

Overview

Sarang Deo is Professor of Operations Management at the Indian School of Business. His primary area of interest is health care operations with special emphasis on investigating the impact of operations decisions on population-level health outcomes. He has studied the influenza vaccine supply chain and the phenomenon of ambulance diversion (in the U.S.), the adult HIV treatment supply chains and the infant HIV diagnosis networks in sub-Saharan Africa, and more recently the T.B. diagnosis pathway in rural India. He frequently collaborates with international agencies such as the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and his research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Grand Challenges Canada.

Prior to joining the ISB, Sarang was Assistant Professor at the Kellogg School of Management. He was a management consultant in the Accenture’s Mumbai office before embarking on an academic career. Sarang has a PhD from UCLA Anderson School of Management, an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and BTech from IIT Bombay.

Awards

Finalist, M&SOM Responsible Research Award. 2019
Professor of the Year Award for Core Courses. 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
Grand Challenges Exploration award for “Optimal Motorcycle Routing in Sample Transportation for Diagnostic Networks.” 2017
Alumni Endowment Research Fellowship, Indian School of Business. 2016-18
Distinguished Service Award, Management Science. 2014
Meritorious Service Award, Management Science. 2016, 2015, 2013, 2011
Meritorious Service Award, M&SOM. 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012
National Science Foundation (U.S.) grant for “Design and Control Principles for Mobile Health Care Operations Management: The Case of Asthma Control,” 2011
Grand Challenges Canada grant for “Multi-Pathogen Point-of-Care Diagnostics (MPDx) in East Africa,” 2011
Nominated for L.G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, 2011
2nd Prize, Oikos case competition on Social Entrepreneurship for the case “Ndlovu: The clock ticks!” 2011
Exceptional Reviewer, Medical Care, 2010, 2009
2nd Prize, M&SOM student paper competition, 2006
Doctoral Award, Joseph M. Juran Center for Leadership in Quality, University of Minnesota, 2006
Doctoral Fellowship, UCLA Anderson School of Management, 2003–2007
National Talent Search Scholarship (India), 1993–2001

Courses Taught

Statistical Methods for Management Decisions
Statistical Analysis 1: Estimation and Testing
Process Excellence in Healthcare Organisations
Process Excellence in Healthcare Organizations
Designing and Managing Effective Healthcare Delivery Systems
Designing and Managing Effective Healthcare Delivery Systems
Operations Management

Research & Publications

Published Papers

Deo Sarang, Singh Simrita, Jha Neha, Arinaminpathy Nimalan and Dewan Puneet (2020) "Predicting the impact of patient and private provider behaviour on diagnostic delay for pulmonary tuberculosis patients in India: A simulation modelling study", PLoS Medicine, 17 (5) (e1003039)
Bayram Armagan, Deo Sarang, Iravani Seyed and Smilowitz Karen (2020) "Managing Virtual Appointments in Chronic Care", IISE Transactions in Healthcare Systems Engineering, 10 (1), 1-17
Arifoglu Kenan, Deo Sarang and Iravani Seyed (2020) "Markdowns in seasonal conspicuous goods", Marketing Science, 39 (5), 1016--1029
Deo Sarang, Tyagi Hanu, Chatterjee Chirantan and Molakpuri Himasagar (2020) "Did India's Price Control Policy for Coronary Stents Create Unintended Consequences?", Social Science and Medicine, 246:112737
T Garg, Bhardwaj M and Deo Sarang (2020) "Role of community health workers in improving cost efficiency in an active case finding tuberculosis program: An operational research study from rural Bihar, India", BMJ Open, 10:e036625
Tyagi Hanu, Sabharwal Manisha, Dixit Nishi, Pal Arnab and Deo Sarang (2020) "Leveraging providers’ preferences to customize instructional content in ICT-based training interventions: A retrospective analysis of a mobile phone-based intervention in India.", JMIR mHealth uHealth, 8 (3) (e15998)
Arinaminpathy Nimalan, Deo Sarang, Singh Simrita, Khaparde Sunil, Rao Raghuram, Vadera Bhavin, Kulshrestha Niraj, Gupta Devesh, Rade Kiran, Nair Sreenivas Achuthan and Dewan Puneet (2019) "Modelling the impact of effective private provider engagement on tuberculosis control in urban India.", Scientiﬁc Reports, 9 (1), 3810
Deo, Sarang.,Jindal, Pankaj.,Gupta, Devesh.,Khaparde, Sunil.,Rade, Kiran.,Sachdeva, Kuldeep.,Vadera, Bhavin.,Shah, Daksha.,Patel, Kamlesh.,Dave, Paresh.,Chopra, Rishabh.,Jha, Nita.,Papineni, Sirisha.,Vijayan, Shibu.,Dewan, Puneet. (2019) "What would it cost to scale-up private sector engagement efforts for TB care? Evidence from three pilot programs in India.", PLoS One, 14 (6), e0214928
Allu Rakesh, Deo Sarang, and Devalkar, Sripad (2019) "Alternatives to Aadhaar based biometrics in the Public Distribution System.", Economic and Political Weekly, 54 (12), 30-37

Books and Monographs

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Cases

Deo Sarang and Lariviere Martin (2019) "Announcing waiting times in emergency departments", Kellogg School of Business
ISB Case Collection distributed through HBS Publishing
Deo Sarang, Ramdas Kamalini (2015) "Eliminating avoidable blindness: Outreach activities at Aravind Eye Care System", London Business School/ Indian School of Business
Deo Sarang, Sohoni Milind, Gambhir Jagdeep and Arora, Priyank (2013) "Aahan (A): Innovation in community delivery of TB care in India", Indian School of Business
Deo Sarang, Kolesov Ilya, Waikar Sachin and Richardson Hilary (2012) "Optimizing Flu Vaccine Planning at NorthShore University Health system", Kellogg School of Management
Deo Sarang, Smilowitz Karen, Stuewer Kerry, Kelly Anne, Schieneson John, Kim Jason and Asvatanakul Thepphan (2011) "Mobile C.A.R.E. Foundation", Kellogg School of Management
Deo Sarang, Har Avidan, Shields Bill and Naware Mihir (2011) "Infant HIV Diagnostics: Supply Chain in Sub-Saharan Africa", Kellogg School of Management
Corbett Charles, Deo Sarang, Tempelman Hugo and Slabbert Mariette (2010) "Ndlovu: The clock ticks!", Oikos Foundation
Deo Sarang, Singh Sanjay, G Raghuram and Choudhari Sanjay (2009) "Adani Wilmar Limited", Asian Case Research Journal, 13 (1), 157-176
Deo Sarang, Nemani Nithin, Singh Sourav, and Jain N "Revenue Management at Sparsh Nephrocare", Indian School of Business

Working Papers

Deo Sarang, Gurvich Itai and Park Eric "Does limiting time on ambulance diversion reduce diversions? Signaling equilibrium and network effect.”
Ganesh Maya, Deo Sarang, and Devalkar Sripad "Leveraging digital technology to improve monitoring and Planning in Public Sector Supply Chains: Evidence from India’s food security program."
Chhatre Ashwini, Deo Sarang and Pradhan Nabin “Heterogenous climate impacts across the yield distribution of monsoon rice in India”
Delana Kraig, Deo Sarang, Ramdas Kamalini, Ravilla Thulsiraj and Babu Ganesh "Multi-channel Delivery of healthcare: Impact of telemedicine network in southern India.
Deo Sarang, Iravani Seyed, Jiang Tingting and Smilowitz Karen "Incentive design to coordinate disease management for chronic conditions"
Deo Sarang, Mehta Sameer, Corbett Charles "Optimal scale-up of HIV treatment programs in resource-limited settings under supply uncertainty"

Experience

Academic Appointments

2020 - present: Professor, Indian School of Business
2017 - present: Executive Director, Max Institute of Healthcare Management, ISB
2016 - 2020: Associate Professor, Indian School of Business
2011 - 2016: Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business 2007–2011 Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management.

Industry experience

2001 - 2003: Analyst, Accenture (Management Consulting)

Board positions and Committee Membership

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In the Media

December 31, 2012: Using Operations Management to Improve Healthcare Access, ISB Insight.

June 04, 2012: When Hospitals Turn Away Ambulances, Kellogg Insight.

May 01, 2012: Accel Partners, IDG Ventures to invest $5 million in Forums Health, Economic Times.

October 20, 2011: Decentralization of resource-constrained networks, Pharmabiz.

April 01, 2011: A Potentially Fatal Illness, An Unpredictable Vaccine, Kellogg Insight.

December 01, 2009: Rational Rationing, Kellogg Insight.