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Professor Patrick Jonathan is a Full Professor at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. His research focuses on applying operations research methods to healthcare management challenges, particularly in patient scheduling, capacity planning, and disaster response logistics. He holds a B.A.Sc. from McMaster University, M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Key research areas include healthcare system efficiency, stochastic optimization, approximate dynamic programming, and resource allocation in emergency and long-term care settings. He has contributed to projects like optimizing inpatient unit staffing during pandemics and developing robust logistics models for disaster relief operations.
- Education: B.A.Sc. (McMaster), M.Sc. (UBC), Ph.D. (UBC)
- Affiliations: INFORMS, CORS, Centre for Health Care Management (UBC)
Recent work emphasizes pandemic-related healthcare operations, including staff scheduling under crisis conditions and elective patient admission strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. His research also addresses dynamic home care routing and multi-priority patient scheduling policies.
He has secured over $2.3 million in research funding through grants from NSERC, MITACS, and the National Research Council. Notable projects include the 'Resilience and Adaptation to Climatic Extreme (RACE) Wildfires' initiative and 'Stochasticity in Approximate Dynamic Programming.'
Labs/Teams: Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams on healthcare logistics and emergency department optimization projects.
