Faculty

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Murray Côté, PhD, earned a B.A. in political science and an M.B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and a Ph.D. in management science from Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Colorado Denver, he was on the faculty at the University of Florida and Trinity University, San Antonio.

Professor Côté’s primary research interests are in health care operations, including patient flow, capacity planning and management, demand forecasting, and nurse staffing and scheduling. His research findings have been published in Decision Sciences, the European Journal of Operational Research, Health Care Management Science, and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, among others. In addition, his research has received awards from the Decision Sciences Institute and the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Professor Côté has obtained extramural funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center and the Education and Research Foundation of APICS. He has also consulted for a variety of health care organizations including CIGNA, the Texas Transplant Institute at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital, and Shands Jacksonville. Professor Côté is currently an investigator for two Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services-funded projects examining how to evaluate the quality of care provided in nursing homes based upon survey deficiencies and staffing levels.

Professor Côté is a member of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the American Society for Quality (ASQ). He was a past president of the Health Applications Section of INFORMS and is an ASQ-certified quality manager.

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