Andrea IppolitoFounder

United States - Lansing, New York,

Andrea Ippolito currently serves as the CEO and Founder of SimpliFed. Prior to joining SimpliFed, Andrea served as the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Innovators Network within the VA Center for Innovation. In this capacity, she designed and oversaw the creation of a $10.5M program that provides the tools and resources to VA employees to develop innovations that improve the experience of Veterans and their families. Prior to that role, Andrea served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow based out of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and General Services Administration. She pursued doctoral studies in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT and was the Co-Founder of an innovative application that improves access to care called Smart Scheduling (acquired by athenahealth in 2016). She also previously served as the Co-Director of MIT Hacking Medicine, as an Innovation Specialist at the Brigham Innovation Hub and Product Innovation Manager at athenahealth. Ms. Ippolito completed her MS in Engineering & Management at MIT. Prior to MIT, Ms. Ippolito worked as a Research Scientist within the Corporate Technology Development group at Boston Scientific. She obtained both her BS in Biological Engineering in 2006 and Master of Engineering degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 from Cornell University.

Some links describing my past work:
https://spectrum.mit.edu/spring-2015/engineering-to-improve-health-care/

http://news.mit.edu/2014/student-profile-andrea-ippolito-1119

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/expert-nation-must-improve-patent-diversity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeZxJJsuGZY