Professor Patrick's research interests are in applying the methods of operations research to improve the efficiency of health care management. His PhD thesis involved a Markov decision process model that sought to determine intelligent multi-priority patient scheduling policies with the goal of maintaining reasonable priority-specific wait times. His current research interests are in capacity planning within health care as well as continuing to explore scheduling challenges. On the theoretical side, Professor Patrick is interested in seeking to advance the field of approximate dynamic programming.
Professor Patrick is a member of INFORMS and CORS. He is also an affiliate with the Centre for Health Care Management at UBC.
From-To | Source | Title | * | ** | Role | Amount |
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2022 | MITACS | Scheduling and Routing of Personal Support Workers in Home Health Care | R | G | PI | $ 15,000 |
2021-2024 | National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Small Teams Initiative | Resilience and Adaptation to Climatic Extreme (RACE) Wildfires (Research initiative with a budget of $1,921,000 dollars) | R | G | Co-I | $ 75,000 |
2021 | Telfer School of Management Research Grants (SMRG) | Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning for Portfolio Management | R | I | PI | $ 4,000 |
2020-2025 | NSERC | Stochasticity in Approximate Dynamic Programming | R | C | PI | $ 155,000 |
2020-2021 | MITACS | A deep risk-sensitive reinforcement learning framework for portfolio management | R | O | Co-PI | $ 15,000 |
2020-2021 | MITACS | Robust Resource-Service-to-Patient Allocation Planning in Mass Casualty Incidents | R | O | Co-PI | $ 6,000 |
2020 | Telfer School of Management Research Grants (SMRG) | An Adjustable Robust Optimization Approach for personnel scheduling under uncertain demand | R | I | PI | $ 4,000 |
2019-2020 | Telfer School of Management Research Grants (SMRG), Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Support Grant | Home Health Care Scheduling and routing | R | I | PI | $ 30,000 |
2018-2021 | Health System Research Fund, Program Awards | Informing Health System Reform for Long-Term and Community Care | R | G | Co-I | $ 2,085,701 |
2017 | Telfer School of Management Research Grants (SMRG) | Capacity Planning for a Mood and Anxiety Disorder Outpatient Clinic using the CAPA Service Management Management System | R | I | PI | $ 4,000 |
2016 | Telfer School of Management Research Fund (SMRF Leverage) | Simulation Optimizing of a Community Care Network | R | I | PI | $ 6,000 |
2016 | Telfer School of Management Research Fund (SMRF Leverage) | Simulation of Policy Deployment | R | I | Co-PI | $ 6,000 |
2016 | Bank of Canada | A two-way, Multi-site Inventory Management Model with a Threshold Cost Structure | R | G | PI | $ 25,000 |
2015-2020 | NSERC | Improving Patient Flow Through Acute Care | R | C | Co-PI | $ 110,000 |
2015-2016 | Bryère Research Institute | Community care capacity planning | R | F | PI | $ 15,000 |
2012 | IBM CBAP | A Model for Performance Evaluation of Pediatric Emergency Department Physicians | R | I | PI | $ 10,000 |
LEGEND:
*Purpose
C: Contract (R and D) | E: Equipment Grant | R: Research Grant | S: Support Award | P: Pedagogical Grant | O: Other, U: Unknown
**Type
C: Granting Councils | G: Government | F: Foundations | I: UO Internal Funding | O: Other | U: Unknown
Role
PI = Principal Investigator | Co-I = Co-Investigator | Co-PI = Co-Principal Investigator