TEAM HOPE: Hospital Optimal Productivity Enterprise
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Jon Anderson is a mathematics and computer science double major. He is quiet and composed. He likes math, video games, puzzles, and SET. He hangs out with friends and with his girlfriend. He rides a unicycle and he has played in the Pokemon Trading Card Game World Championships twice.

Katie Johnson is a psychology major minoring in French. She enjoys flexibility with classes and does not limit her courses to major classes. She is unsure of her future plans after college but she will most likely attend graduate school of some kind.

Outside of academics Katie enjoys running and doing community service activities. She is the President of the Gemstone-Ellicott Service Committee, a community service club on campus (anybody interested in the club should contact her to find out more information). During school breaks, Katie enjoys traveling to new places. She hopes to go to Australia sometime soon.
Daniel is an Operations Management major at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and is also pre-med. He plans on going to medical school upon graduation and hopes to be involved with hospital administration and hospital management in the future. He lives in New York and enjoys going home whenever he has free time to spend time with his family and friends. He is an avid New York Rangers fan and watches every game. In his free time, Daniel likes to ski, read, play hockey, work out, and hang out with friends.
Jay is biochemistry major from Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He hopes to go on to medical school after graduation with the intent of becoming a radiologist some day. Jay is an avid sports fan, and he is enjoying all the success that Boston sports teams are having lately. He is also a huge NASCAR fan, and seeing his favorite driver, Ryan Newman, win the Daytona 500 was one of the highlights of the year. In his free time, Jay enjoys going to the gym, playing golf, and watching television. He hopes to get a job at a golf course and a hospital this summer. Working at a hospital as well as on Team HOPE will give him exposure to the medical community from all angles.
Ben Kubic is a Operations Management and Government and Politics double major from Bethesda, MD. He enjoys playing video games, going to the gym, and watching old Fresh Prince and Whose Line Is It Anyway episodes in his spare time. Ben is in the Hinman CEOs program as well as member of Team HOPE in the Gemstone program. Ben is the owner of a tutoring company in Prince George's County, and he hopes to continue in entrepreneurship after graduation.
Joseph Lim is a Chemical Engineering major with hopes of minoring in International Engineering. He doesn't have any post-graduation plans yet, but has been considering some form of graduate school. When he's not studying, he enjoys sports, reading, board games, movies, sleeping, eating, and hanging with friends. Sometimes he's lucky enough to travel, see music concerts, and snowboard. Joseph lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his sister and parents.
Julie is a history and government and politics major, with a focus on understanding 20th century international affairs in order to enact change for social justice in the present and future. She is also interested in understanding how cities develop to use them as a medium for social change. Thus, coming from a small town in western Maryland, she is thrilled to be in the more metropolitan College Park, and spends as must time as she can in neighboring Washington, D.C. She also enjoys reading, biking and playing outdoors, dancing with friends and family, eating burritos, and challenging the status quo whenever possible.
John Silberholz is a computer science and math major. He likes playing basketball, playing Madden on his PS2, researching in the field of operations research with Dr. Golden, journalism, tennis, and Just Born peeps. The only sport he follows closely is football, and he loves his Baltimore Ravens. He is a fan of Chinese food carryout and all things Tex-Mex. After he graduates, he has no idea what he wants to do, though going to graduate school in applied mathematics and going into industry both seem like pretty viable options. He looks forward to working with Team HOPE's involved simulation model and performing statistical analysis on lots of hospital data.
Alex is a Psychology major in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. She plans on attending graduate school after graduation and eventually working in the health field. She is originally from Sykesville, Maryland and watches Ravens, Orioles, and Capitals games regularly. In her spare time, Alex enjoys snowboarding, going to the beach, and spending time with family and friends.
Emi thinks her Gems team is the coolest one ever and is full of great people! She is a math and pre-med major with a minor in agriculture economics. She absolutely loves her little sister, her family, her friends, and her two pet birds. Em likes to work out, people-watch, read cool books, spend time with people, philosophize, and food is amazing...In her spare time she works at being the smallest firefighter in P.G.County! Four foot eleven inches of pure spitfire. After college she is thinking about medical school or working for the World Bank.

Ekta Taneja is a junior finance and pre-med student with a passion for books, Indian music, and MD basketball (women's more than men's). She's a modest poet with an unappeasable thirst for cinnamon-sprinkled, foamy caramel macchiatos downed while reading Calvin and Hobbes or Pearls Before Swine, maybe with a sudoku puzzle thrown in. She loves wit and sarcasm, though on occasion finds herself lacking both.

Ekta hates serial commas with a passion, and takes a perverse pleasure in making papers bleed red. She loves to spend what little free time she has hanging out with her little sister or watching CSI, 24, and Friends. Maybe eventually she'll rejoin the real world and serve a brief stint as a doctor -- maybe for 40 years or so?
Eddie is attaining a double degree in Finance and Economics, with a minor in Chinese Studies. He is also a member of QUEST, Hinman CEOs, and Business Honors, and is the treasurer of the University of Maryland chapter of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. He enjoys traveling, and is always up for something new..
Esther is an Animal Science major from Hockessin, DE who hopes that a veterinary school somewhere will accept her once she graduates from the University of Maryland. Meanwhile, she enjoys reading, spending time with friends, playing piano, sleeping, eating, and being involved in the Korean Campus Ministry. During the summers she has tried to spend her time wisely, helping people from Mexico, South Korea, and South Africa through mission work. She hopes that through this project, she can help people in a different way by aiding hospitals to care for more people in need.

Bruce Golden received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Pennyslvania and his masters and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty of the University of Maryland Business School in 1976 and served as a Department Chairman from 1980 to 1996. Currently, Bruce is the France-Merrick Chair in Management Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. His research interests include heuristic search, combinatorial optimization, networks, and applied operations research.

In 1980, he founded a management consulting company with several colleagues. The focus was on business logistics. Clients included IBM, UPS, the U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, Federal Express, Toyota, DuPont, and many others. In the late 1980s, Bruce co-founded a second company, specializing in the design and sales of vehicle routing software. He and his partners successfully grew these companies and sold them in late 1998.

Zaida Diaz is the team librarian.