Date: Friday, June 5, 2026
Location: University of Toronto
About the Symposium
This special symposium brings together current and former U of T students, colleagues, collaborators, and distinguished researchers, to celebrate Professor Michael Carter’s extraordinary impact on healthcare engineering. For more than four decades, Prof. Carter has been a pioneering force in healthcare operations, capacity planning, scheduling, patient flow modelling, and training generations of leaders who now shape health systems across Canada and beyond.
The event is scheduled immediately before the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) Annual Conference on June 8-10, and the Canadian Healthcare Operations Workshop on June 7, making it convenient for attendees participating in those events as well. More information about CORS 2026 is available on the conference website.
About the Honouree: Professor Michael W. Carter
Prof. Michael Carter has been a Professor in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto since 1981 and is the Founding Director of the Centre for Healthcare Engineering. He is internationally recognized as a pioneer in healthcare operations research, with influential contributions to resource planning, patient flow modeling, operating room scheduling, and health workforce forecasting. He has supervised more than 100 graduate students and over 300 undergraduate projects, with many of his trainees now serving across the healthcare sector. Prof. Carter is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, INFORMS, and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and is a four‑time winner of the prestigious CORS Practice Prize. He has also been awarded the CORS Award of Merit, and the CORS Eldon Gunn Service Award.
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