Mustafa Akan is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Akan's research involves revenue management, the economics of health care management, and manufacturing and service operations management. He collaborated with Allegheny General Hospital and Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange (PAE). Prof. Akan's thesis received the Best Dissertation Award of the Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS in 2008. He is the co-recipient of the 2009 INFORMS Best Paper in Service Science and POMS 2012 Healthcare Best Paper awards.