Dr. Alton Russell
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Associate Member, Department of Medicine
W. Alton Russell, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the McGill School of Population and Global Health, Associate Member of the Division of Experimental Medicine, and director of the Data-Driven Decision Modeling Lab, or D3Mod lab. The D3Mod lab aims to enable the efficient, effective, and equitable use of finite healthcare resources by developing, assessing, and applying traditional decision modeling methods (mathematical modeling, simulation, optimization) together with data-driven methods (machine learning, Bayesian statistics). Dr. Russell received undergraduate training in Industrial Engineering and Public Health at North Carolina State University, Masters and Doctoral training in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment and Harvard Medical School.
- Using machine learning and simulation modeling to inform 鈥減ersonalized鈥� approaches to managing iron deficiency in blood donors
- Model-based economic evaluation to inform health policy and clinical practice across diverse clinical domains
- Using simulation modeling and machine learning to improve operations for emergency medical services.