Michael earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Waterloo (1979). He was the founding Director of the Centre for Healthcare Engineering (in 2009). Since 1989, his research focus has been in the area of health care resource modeling. As of January 2018, Mike had supervised 23 Ph.D. students, 90 Masters and more than 250 undergraduate engineering students in over 100 projects with industry partners. He is cross appointed to the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the School of Public Policy & Governance at Toronto. He was the winner of the Annual Practice Prize from the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) four times (1988, 1992, 1996 and 2009). In 2000, he received the CORS Award of Merit for lifetime contributions to Canadian Operational Research. He also received an "Excellence in Teaching" Award from the University of Toronto Student Administrative Council. He is on the editorial board for the journals "Health Care Management Science", "Operations Research for Health Care", "Health Systems" and "IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems". He is an Adjunct Scientist with the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto and a member of the Faculty Advisory Council for the University of Toronto Chapter of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario. In 2012, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and in 2013, he was inducted as a Fellow of INFORMS, the international society for Operations Research and Management Science.