Steven Shechter

Steven Shechter is a Full Professor at The University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business, in the Department of BUS. His research focuses on stochastic optimization, simulation, medical decision making, and health care operations research. He is affiliated with the Operations and Logistics Division and teaches courses such as Managerial Decisions Modelling and Analytics, Simulation Modeling, and Optimal Decision Making. His work includes publications in journals like Management Science and Operations Research, addressing topics such as mass vaccination scheduling and dynamic capacity allocation for elective surgeries.

Steven Shechter is a Professor at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, specializing in operations research, management science, and health care. His research focuses on applying operations research methodologies to complex health care systems, including decision analysis, simulation modeling, and optimization techniques. He has published extensively on topics such as Markov decision processes in medical treatment, discrete-event simulation in radiation therapy planning, and the impact of HIV treatment timing on patient outcomes. His work emphasizes the integration of clinical insights with quantitative methods to improve health care delivery and resource allocation.