Schulich Research Excellence Fellowship The establishment and designation of the “Schulich Research Excellence Fellow” is a means of retaining, incentivizing, and recognizing non-chaired tenured faculty members who are achieving research excellence within the parameters of the Schulich’s scholarly plans, mission, and strategy. This Research Excellence Fellowship is for a three-year term, and the fellows receive 1 course release per year to enhance their research productivity. In the 2021 inaugural program, the Office of Associate Dean, Research awarded the fellowship to 13 candidates.
Adam Diamant
A DA M DIA M A N T Associate Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems
68 Schulich School of Business
Adam Diamant’s research program intersects with the fields of organizational management, operations research, and artificial intelligence with a specific focus on studying health-related systems. In particular, he develops new techniques in optimization and artificial intelligence (AI) for solving large-scale problems in dynamic and uncertain environments. Adam applies these tools to the study of healthcare systems with the goal of understanding and designing evidence-based approaches for institutional improvements in both service quality and operational efficiency. Adam is extremely appreciative of the opportunity to be a Schulich Research Excellence Fellow as it will allow him to engage in research that impacts both Toronto and Ontario public health communities. It will also allow him to disseminate his findings to a global network of business researchers and health practitioners. Through partnerships with several medical institutions such as Michael Garron Hospital and The Midwives’ Clinic East York-Don Mills, the fellowship program will allow him to focus on the creation of data-driven tools to aid in the assignment of patients to medical practitioners as well as the management of scarce health resources. The overall objective of these research projects is to create technologies to better support clinical practice so that patients receive the requisite therapeutic attention in a timely and responsive fashion while administrative efficiency is improved, and operational costs are controlled. These studies contribute to the management, operations research, and AI communities in that new business insight, mathematical theory, and computational models must be developed. Adam’s research program will shed light on how current operational paradigms in the health sector can affect access to care, resource utilization, workload fairness amongst practitioners, and whether certain patient groups face barriers to care provision. These projects will also provide health administrators with high-level managerial insight as to why the proposed AI systems, and the potential changes to operational structures, perform well. Finally, this research will also illustrate how health institutions can efficiently utilize scarce health human resources so as to more effectively provide timely care to their patients.
