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M. D. Prodel-is-a-ph, Student at the company HEVA and the Center for Health Engineering at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne (ENSM.SE), France. He received both his engineering degree and his Msc degree in Industrial Engineering from the ENSM.SE in 2013 His research interests include applications of modeling, simulation and Markov Theory in health care systems