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Professor Patrick's research interests involve applying operations research methods to improve efficiency in health care management. His PhD thesis focused on a Markov decision process model aimed at determining intelligent multi-priority patient scheduling policies while maintaining reasonable priority-specific wait times. Currently, his research centers on capacity planning in health care and further exploring scheduling challenges. On the theoretical side, he is interested in advancing the field of approximate dynamic programming. Additionally, Professor Patrick is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS), and is affiliated with the Centre for Health Care Management at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
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