Jonathan Patrick

Full Professor

B.A.Sc. (McMaster), M.Sc. (UBC), Ph.D. (UBC)

Location: DMS 10152
Telephone: 613-562-5800 x 4796

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Biography

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.

Research Areas

Health Care Management and Treatment Models Health Management Patient Scheduling Waiting Time Management

Publications during the last 7 years

Papers in Refereed Journals

Dehnoei, S., Sauré, A., Ozturk, O., Gardner, W., Pajera, K., Sheppard, R. and Patrick, J. 2024. A stochastic optimization approach for staff scheduling decisions at inpatient units. International Transactions in Operational Research, 31(3): 1762-1790.
Khorasanian, D., Patrick, J. and Sauré, A. 2024. Dynamic Home Care Routing and Scheduling Problem with Uncertain Number of Visits per Referral. Transportation Science, (In Press).
Kamyabniya, A., Sauré, A., Salman, S., Benichou, N. and Patrick, J. 2024. Optimization Models for Disaster Response Operations: A Literature Review. OR Spectrum, (In Press).
Varshoei, P., Patrick, J. and Ozturk, O. 2024. Optimization of elective patient admissions during pandemics: Case of COVID-19. Journal of the Operational Research Society.
Babashov, V., Sauré, A., Ozturk, O. and Patrick, J. 2023. Setting Wait Time Targets in a Multi-Priority Patient Setting: An Inverse Optimization Approach. Production and Operations Management, 32(6): 1958-1974.
Moosavi, A., Ozturk, O. and Patrick, J. 2022. Staff Scheduling for Residential Care Under Pandemic Conditions: The Case of COVID-19. Omega, 112: 102671.
Kamyabniya, A., Noormohammadzadeh, Z., Sauré, A. and Patrick, J. 2021. A Robust Integrated Logistics Model for Age-Based Multi-Group Platelets in Disaster Relief Operations. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 152: 102371.
Legrain, A. and Patrick, J. 2021. Inventory Management Using an (s,S)-Policy at The Bank of Canada. INFORMS Journal of Applied Analytics, 52(2): 210-225.
Labijak-Kowalska, A., Kadzinski, M., Spychata, I., Dias, L., Fiallos, J., Patrick, J., Michalowski, M. and Farion, K. 2021. Performance evaluation of emergency department physicians using robust value-based additive efficiency model. International Transactions in Operational Research, 30(1): 503-544.
Sauré, A., Begen, M. and Patrick, J. 2020. Dynamic Multi-Priority, Multi-Class Patient Scheduling with Stochastic Service Times. European Journal of Operational Research, 280(1): 254-265.
Patrick, J., Montazeri, A., Michalowski, M. and Bannerjee, D. 2019. Automated Pathologist Scheduling at The Ottawa Hospital. INFORMS Journal of Applied Analytics, 49(2): 93-103.
Bidhandi, H., Patrick, J., Noghani, P. and Varshoei, P. 2019. Capacity Planning for a Network of Community Care Services. European Journal of Operational Research, 275(1): 266-279.
Ozturk, O. and Patrick, J. 2018. An optimization model for freight transport using urban rail transit. European Journal of Operational Research, 267(3): 1110-1121.
Bidhandi, H., Noghani, P. and Patrick, J. 2017. Accelerated Sample Average Approximation Method for Two-Stage Stochastic Programming. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 41(January 2017): 582-595.
Fiallos, J., Patrick, J., Michalowski, M. and Farion, K. 2017. Using Data Envelopment Analysis for Assessing the Performance of Pediatric Emergency Department Physicians. Health Care Management Science, 20(1): 129-140.

Funded Research during the last 7 years

Funded Research during the last 7 years
From-To	Source	Title	*	**	Role	Amount
2022-2023	MITACS	Scheduling and Routing of Personal Support Workers in Home Health Care	R	G	PI	$ 30,000
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
2015-2020	NSERC	Improving Patient Flow Through Acute Care	R	C	Co-PI	$ 110,000
2012	IBM CBAP	A Model for Performance Evaluation of Pediatric Emergency Department Physicians	R	I	PI	$ 10,000

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Role
PI = Principal Investigator | Co-I = Co-Investigator | Co-PI = Co-Principal Investigator

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