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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Dear Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:1.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">You are cordially invited to submit (if you have not already done so) your recent research work, either work-in-progress or completed study, to the
<b><i>45<sup>th</sup> Annual Meeting of Decision Sciences Institute </i></b>(DSI 2014), which is to be held on
<b>November 22-25, 2014</b> at Tampa, Florida (<a href="http://dsi-tampa2014.org/">http://dsi-tampa2014.org/</a>). Dr. Sharon Schweikhart and I would like you to consider submitting your work in<b><i> Healthcare Management</i></b> (<a href="http://dsi-tampa2014.org/healthcare-management/">http://dsi-tampa2014.org/healthcare-management/</a></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">).<span style="color:black">
More details about how to submit your work can be found at the website (<a href="http://dsi-tampa2014.org/submission/">http://dsi-tampa2014.org/submission/</a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">We look forward seeing you in Tampa!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Kind wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Neset Hikmet, PhD, MBA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Director of Graduate Studies in Health Information Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Department of Integrated Information Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">University of South Carolina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Columbia, SC 29208</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Office: 803-777-5559<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:nhikmet@sc.edu"><span style="color:blue">nhikmet@sc.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Sharon Schweikhart, PhD, MBA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Associate Professor and MHA Program Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Health Services Management and Policy Division<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">The Ohio State University College of Public Health<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">614-292-6814 office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:sschweikhart@cph.osu.edu">sschweikhart@cph.osu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:1.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#202020">Submission Deadlines:
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<p style="margin:1.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#202020">May 1, 2014</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#202020"> - Full Paper Submissions and All Competition Entry Submissions,
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<p style="margin:1.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#202020">May 15, 2014</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#202020"> - Abstract Submissions, Panel, and Workshop Proposals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Please excuse duplicate distribution.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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