This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Using Industrial and Operations Engineering in Healthcare: Putting Theory into Practice

Abstract:
At the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety, faculty, students, and clinicians from many different disciplines all come together to improve patient access, optimize utilization of scarce resources, and simulate the impacts of uncertainty on complex clinical systems. In this session, I’ll discuss how students play a critical role in this work, and opportunities for interested students to get involved in the future.

Bio:
Amy Ellen Mainville Cohn is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she also holds an appointment in the Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health. Dr. Cohn is the Associate Director of the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS). She serves on the leadership teams of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI) and the Precision Health Initiative. She holds an A.B. in applied mathematics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and a PhD in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her primary research interests are in applications of combinatorial optimization, particularly to healthcare and aviation, and to the challenges of optimization problems with multiple objective criteria. She values teaching, mentoring, having a positive impact on society through her work, and helping to foster a vibrant, diverse, nurturing community. She and her husband Jonathan are the proud parents of two sons, Tommy and Peter.