Murray Côté, Ph.D., MBA
Dr. Cote is a current Associate Professor at Texas A&M University in the Deaprtment of Health Policy and Management. 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.
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.
Dr. Côté 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.