Bjorn Berg

Bjorn Berg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota. His work focuses on healthcare operations management, with particular emphasis on optimizing clinical scheduling systems and care team structures.

• Current research projects include NSF-funded work on family medicine residency scheduling
• Collaborations span operations research, clinical workflow optimization, and health policy analysis

His methodological expertise includes robust optimization, discrete event simulation, and stochastic programming models applied to healthcare delivery challenges. Recent publications analyze surgical scheduling algorithms, patient panel designs, and clinic operational efficiency.

Key research themes include:

• Improving physician continuity through structured clinic scheduling
• Developing mathematical models for healthcare resource allocation
• Evaluating trade-offs in specialty care team configurations
• Designing incentive mechanisms for patient attendance compliance