Member Bio - Andrea Ippolito

Andrea Ippolito is the executive director of the Engineering Management
Program at Cornell University. She recently completed a role as the
innovators network director at the Department of Veterans Affairs and
she previously served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the VA
Center for Innovation based out of the White House Office of Science
Technology Policy and General Services Administration. She previously
was a Ph.D. student in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT, cofounder
of Smart Scheduling, Innovation Specialist at the Brigham &
Women’s Hospital Innovation Hub, and co-leader of MIT’s Hacking
Medicine. She also served as a product innovation manager at Athena
Health and completed her M.S. in engineering and management at MIT.
Prior to MIT, Ippolito worked as a research scientist within the Corporate
Technology Development group at Boston Scientific. She obtained both
her B.S. in biological engineering in 2006 and Master of Engineering in
biomedical engineering in 2007 from Cornell University.

521 Ridge Road

Lansing, NY 14882

aki2@cornell.edu

339-234-0164