Faculty Affiliates

Wesley Marrero, PhD, MA, MEng

Assistant Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Quantitative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, Health Equity and Advocacy Lab

Health Policy; Machine Learning; Simulation

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Wesley Marrero, PhD, MA, MEng
Assistant Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Quantitative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, Health Equity and Advocacy Lab

603-646-3457

Wesley.Marrero@dartmouth.edu


Professor Marrero’s research interest lies in developing decision-support tools that consider the challenges associated with their implementation in practice, such as inequity, irrational behavior, lack of interpretability, and need for flexibility. To this end, he designs and applies techniques from operations research, statistics, and algorithmic fairness, with an emphasis on simulation and optimization. His current work focuses on measuring and mitigating the effects of bias and inequity through statistical and optimization methods. Through this research, Dr. Marrero has ongoing collaborations with Dartmouth Health, the Geisel School of Medicine, the Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Michigan Medical School and School of Public Health, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling, hiking, and running.

Professor Marrero’s website


Selected Publications
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    Marrero W J. Simulation-based sets of similar-performing actions in finite Markov decision process models. Proceedings of the 2022 Winter Simulation Conference. Feng B, Pedrielli G, Peng Y, Shashaani S, Song E, Corlu CG, Lee LH, Chew EP, Roeder T, Lendermann P, editors.
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    2023
    McNealey AK, Marrero WJ, Steimle LN, Garcia GG. Optimization methods for interpretable treatment and screening. Encyclopedia of Optimization. Third Edition. Springer New York, NY.
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    2023
    Garcia GG, Steimle LN, Marrero WJ, Sussman JB. Interpretable policies and the price of interpretability in hypertension treatment planning. Manufacturing & Service Operations Managemen. 2023 July 18.
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    2023
    Thesen T, Marrero WJ, Konopasky A, Duncan M, Blackmon KE. Towards precision well-being in medical education. MedRxiv. 2023 June 22.
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    2022
    Stafford C, Marrero WJ, Naumann RB, Lich KH, Wakeman S, Jalali MS. Identifying key risk factors for premature discontinuation of opioid use disorder treatment in the United States: A predictive modeling study. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2022 Aug 1;237:109507. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109507. PMID: 35660221.
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    2021
    Chen HF, Ali H, Marrero WJ, Parikh ND, Lavieri MS, Hutton DW. The magnitude of the health and economic impact of increased organ donation on patients with end-stage renal disease. MDM Policy Pract. 2021 Dec 6;6(2):23814683211063418. doi: 10.1177/23814683211063418. PMID: 34901442; PMCID: PMC8655828.
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    2021
    Marrero WJ, Lavieri MS, Guikema SD, Hutton DW, Parikh ND. A machine learning approach for the prediction of overall deceased donor organ yield. Surgery. 2021 Nov;170(5):1561-1567. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2021.06.004. PMID: 34183178.
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    2021
    Marrero WJ, Lavieri MS, Tewari A, Sussman JB, Hayward RA. Data-driven ranges of near-optimal actions for finite Markov decision processes. Optimization Online. 2021 Oct 5.
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    2021
    DeRoos LJ, Zhou Y, Marrero WJ, Tapper EB, Sonnenday CJ, Lavieri MS, Hutton DW, Parikh ND. Assessment of national organ donation rates and organ procurement organization metrics. JAMA Surg. 2021 Feb 1;156(2):173-180. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2020.5395. PMID: 33263743; PMCID: PMC7711570.
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    2020
    Marrero, W. J., Lavieri, M. S., & Sussman, J. B. A simulation model to evaluate the implications of genetic testing in cholesterol treatment plans. Proceedings of the 2019 Winter Simulation Conference. Mustafee N, Bae K-H G, Lazarova-Molnar S, Rabe M, Szabo C, Haas P, Son Y-J, editors.
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    2019
    DeRoos LJ, Marrero WJ, Tapper EB, Sonnenday CJ, Lavieri MS, Hutton DW, Parikh ND. Estimated association between organ availability and presumed consent in solid organ transplant. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Oct 2;2(10):e1912431. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.12431. PMID: 31577360; PMCID: PMC6777259.
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    2019
    Parikh ND, Marrero WJ, Wang J, Steuer J, Tapper EB, Konerman M, Singal AG, Hutton DW, Byon E, Lavieri MS. Projected increase in obesity and non-alcoholic-steatohepatitis-related liver transplantation waitlist additions in the United States. Hepatology. 2019 Aug;70(2):487-495. doi: 10.1002/hep.29473. PMID: 28833326.
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    2018
    Marrero WJ, Lavieri MS, Guikema SD, Hutton DW, Parikh ND. Development of a predictive model for deceased donor organ yield. Transplantation. 2018 Aug;102(8):e364. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000002274. PMID: 29757898.
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    2017
    Parikh ND, Marrero WJ, Sonnenday CJ, Lok AS, Hutton DW, Lavieri MS. Population-Based Analysis and Projections of Liver Supply Under Redistricting. Transplantation. 2017 Sep;101(9):2048-2055. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000001785. PMID: 28945663.
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    2017
    Marrero WJ, Naik AS, Friedewald JJ, Xu Y, Hutton DW, Lavieri MS, Parikh ND. Predictors of deceased donor kidney discard in the United States. Transplantation. 2017 Jul;101(7):1690-1697. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000001238. PMID: 27163541.
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    2016
    Schell GJ, Marrero WJ, Lavieri MS, Sussman JB, Hayward RA. Data-driven markov decision process approximations for personalized hypertension treatment planning. MDM Policy Pract. 2016 Oct 17;1(1):2381468316674214. doi: 10.1177/2381468316674214. PMID: 30288409; PMCID: PMC6124941.
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    2015
    Parikh ND, Hutton D, Marrero W, Sanghani K, Xu Y, Lavieri M. Projections in donor organs available for liver transplantation in the United States: 2014-2025. Liver Transpl. 2015 Jun;21(6):855-63. doi: 10.1002/lt.24136. PMID: 25845830.
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