Chester Chambers

Chester Chambers

Full-Time Faculty

Clinical Professor

Information Technology and Operations Management

Email

cchamber@smu.edu?subject=Cox Faculty Profile

Phone

(214) 768-6003

Office

Fincher 430-B, Office hours by appointment

Website

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Education

PhD, Duke University

Biography

Professor Chambers Clinical Professor in Information Technology and Operations Management. He also serves as the MSBA Program Director. His main research interests focus on the Analytics Techniques and applications within the Healthcare Industry, however he has authored dozens on papers on topics ranging from Supply Chain Management, to Operations Strategy, and even Personal Finance. He currently teaches in the BA, MSBA, and MBA programs on topics ranging from Operations Management to Social Media Analytics.


Teaching

ITOM 6219
ITOM 6277
ITOM 4320
MAST 6460


Research

Health Care Analytics

Publications

Managing Healthcare Operations, Wiley Press (Forthcoming). Managing prior approval for site-of-service referrals: an algorithmic approach, 2022.

BMC Health Services Research Efficiency Metrics: Maximizing Utility of Withdrawals in Retirement and the Efficiency of Required Minimum Distributions, Journal of Retirement Planning, 2021.

Healthcare Analytics, in Essentials of Business Analytics: An Introduction to the Methodology and its Applications. Springer, 2019.

A Model for an Institutional Response to the Opioid Crisis. Journal of Opioid Management, 2019.

Managing Clinical Appointments in an Academic Medical Center in INFORMS International Conference on Service Science, 2018.