Guests include John Dickerson of the University of Maryland and Tuomas Sandholm of Carnegie Mellon University whose research on kidney exchange could significantly increase the number of successful kidney transplants; Eva Lee of Georgia Tech whose research in pediatric heart surgery has provided new insight to help fight the opioid epidemic; and Tallys Yunes of the Miami Business School who has some very valuable insight that can help all the fantasy football fans out there improve their lineups.

This episode explores different ways that INFORMS is helping to spread the word on the important role that O.R. and analytics play in our everyday lives. Our guests in this episode include the 2018 INFORMS president Nicholas Hall, Brian Denton, who served as the 2017 president, and the Director of public affairs and marketing for INFORMS, Jeff Cohen. Each will provide special insight into INFORMS current objectives and goals, as well as new initiatives and a look ahead to next steps.