Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Systems Engineer, Judy Reitz Capacity Command Center

Research interests:

• Health care delivery science
• Optimization and machine learning in health care operations

Martin S. Copenhaver is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an operations researcher in the Judy Reitz Capacity Command Center at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He additionally collaborates with the Center for Data Science in Emergency Medicine and is affiliated with the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. His research and teaching interests lie in the design, implementation, and evaluation of new models for patient flow in hospitals, with a particular focus on quality of care and patient outcomes. He also develops and uses tools from optimization, statistics, and machine learning.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Copenhaver was on the Healthcare Systems Engineering team at Massachusetts General Hospital for five years, a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School, and a senior lecturer in operations research and statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. He completed his PhD in operations research at MIT’s Operations Research Center.