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Susan Feng Lu is a Professor of Operations Management and Statistics at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. She holds the prestigious Alan Hudson Chair in Health Policy and has established herself as a leading researcher at the intersection of health economics, operations, and analytics.
- PhD from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- President of the Chinese Economists Society
- Associate Editor for Management Science, MSOM, and POMS
- Testified as expert witness before United States Senate (2023)
- Economist Mentor at Creative Destruction Lab
Her research focuses on operational drivers of healthcare delivery, examining how public policies and technological innovations influence healthcare system efficiency, quality, and equity. She employs empirical methods and machine learning to address pressing healthcare operations challenges, with particular expertise in health technology, nursing home operations, and cardiac care delivery.
Professor Lu's work has been published in top-tier journals including Management Science, MSOM, POMS, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Health Economics, Information Systems Research, Science, and Nature Scientific Reports. Her research has attracted significant grants and media attention from outlets like Barron's, Nature, Freakonomics, and Vox.
- Current research focuses on healthcare operations management, health policy analysis, and big data applications in economics
- Expert in empirical analysis and machine learning methodologies
- Active participant in academic leadership and policy discussions
She contributes to academic governance as Associate Editor for multiple leading journals and maintains extensive collaborations across healthcare, policy, and technology domains.
