SimpliFed is a maternal care at home platform, centered on breastfeeding and baby feeding support. We support families in all 50 states, covered by our commercial, Medicaid, and TRICARE health plan contracts across the US.

Taught/Teaching ENMGT 5920 Product Management, NBA 5070 Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists, ENMGT 5920 Managing a Culture of Innovation, ENMGT 6092 Overcoming Gender Bias in Engineering Management Leadership, and ENMGT 5910 Engineering Management Project Testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business and shared six policy recommendations to push for additional support and patents for diverse innovators in America. http://crea.cornell.edu/2020/01/21/ippolito-testified-before-congress-to-support-diverse-innovators/Served as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corp (I-Corp) National Instructor to train scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the university laboratory to accelerate the translation of NSF-funded, basic-research projects towards commercialization. Managed the launch of a blended learning program for the Engineering Management Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) program to expand the program to new populations Serving as Program Director of W.E. (Women Entrepreneurs) Cornell and Counselor for the Cornell Collegiate Section of the Society of Women EngineersAuthor of "Innovation Strategy" and "Product Management" courses via eCornell:https://www.ecornell.com/certificates/engineering/innovation-strategy/https://www.ecornell.com/certificates/technology/product-management-for-engineers/

Served as senior adviser for the Biden-Harris transition's Agency Review Team focused on technology modernization at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). At the start of the Administration, Andrea stayed on to serve as the Senior Advisor for Electronic Health Record Modernization to the Secretary.

Andrea served as the Director of the VA Innovators Network at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Department of Veteran Affairs Center for Innovation (VACI) created the Innovators Network to spark, accelerate, and scale innovations across VA to best serve Veterans and their supporters. It is located at 33 VA Medical Centers across the country. You can learn more about some of the VA Innovators Network accomplishments in this post: https://medium.com/vainnovation/a-year-in-review-and-another-year-ahead-va-innovators-network-5a63b46ee0e7#.rxe8i080b

Smart Scheduling developed a more predictive, intelligent software to take the guesswork out of scheduling in medical practices. It was acquired by athenahealth in 2016. Check out Smart Scheduling's features in Wired, Forbes, and Xconomy below.http://www.wired.com/business/2013/02/smart-scheduling/http://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2012/09/17/athenahealth-helping-itself-by-helping-health-it-start-ups/http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2012/09/13/student-entrepreneur-i-choose-both/

Lead the design research and stand-up of VAs Innovators Network to empower VA employees to see and solve problems on the ground using innovation-related competenciesCo-lead and organized the VA Innovation Creation Series, Prosthetic + Assistive Technology Challenge, to accelerate the development of open-sourced prosthetics + assistive technologies for veterans utilizing crowd-sourcing platforms and makeathon programs.

Left PhD after 1 year to pursue the Presidential Innovation Fellowship based out of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and General Services Administration. • Served as Teaching Assistant for the following 4 MIT courses: 15.905 Technology Strategy (Spring 2014), 15.S07 Healthcare Ventures (Fall 2013), ESD.61 Integrating the Lean Enterprise (Fall 2013), ESD.33 Systems Engineering (Summer 2012 and 2013), and High Velocity Organizations• Performed program evaluation of the Massachusetts Statewide Health Information Exchange (Mass HIway) as part of ONC State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program to assess their ability to grow adoption of the Mass HIway by all eligible participants, while catalyzing innovation and ultimately demonstrating measurable improvements in care quality, population health and health care costs• Served as a Research Assistant to Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management faculty at MIT and Boston University writing a book surrounding technological convergence and waves and change in technological evolution and adoption• Co-lead the MIT Hacking Medicine team, where we lead 9 hackathons in the United States, Spain, and Uganda with over 1200 participants, 380 clinical problem-based pitches, and 175 demo presentations through MIT Hacking Medicine• Served as an Innovation Specialist at the Brigham & Women's Hospital Innovation Hub (iHub) where she helped launch the iHub’s Pilot Shark Tank program to match early stage external health technology companies to pilot opportunities surrounding specific clinical challenges impacting care delivery at the hospital with clinical partners at BWH. She also developed internal mini-hackathon program with specialty departments at BWH and Clinical Innovation Day PitchFest to encourage and help nurture innovation efforts by front line clinical staff

Lead a cross-disciplinary team of software developers, designers, and usability scientists both stateside and in India to re-skin the user interface for 750 client-facing pages across athenaNet’s practice management and electronic medical record systemCollaborated with the user experience team to develop processes, standards and patterns to revamp the look and feel of the application for our system stakeholders, including physicians and practice staff (both clinical & administrative), to help improve the usability of our 38,000+ provider systemWorked closely with business development and R&D leadership to organize and a hack-a-thon with engineers, designers, physicians, and entrepreneurs from the healthcare IT ecosystem to generate disruptive solutions in medicine

Served on a 10-person team developing recommendations to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as part of a project to transform the Military Health System to better manage post-traumatic stress and related conditions, specifically utilizing the lens of stakeholder analysis.Led a research study with key opinion leaders from the DoD (health policy & services, IM/IT, legal, medical command, telehealth chiefs) to design and provide recommendations surrounding architecting the future telehealth delivery system in the Military Health System.Assessed the role of tele-behavioral health and the use of technology extended outside of the clinic to better improve access to care and reduce stigma for service members and their families and presented research findings at the Conference on Systems Engineering Research (April 2011) and the International Conference on Systems Engineering (June 2011).

Co-lead and initiated BSC’s “Communities of Excellence” (CoEs) focusing on R&D core competencies, enabling collaboration and reducing inefficiencies in the product development process.Served on a cross-Divisional team to accelerate R&D collaboration and helped identify existing collaboration barriers, developed personas for our target R&D clients, mapped their collaboration-related needs to commercially-available capabilities, and prioritized top solutions. Performed due diligence assays to evaluate inflammation markers produced in response to new materials for our drug-eluting stent platform in early stage development.Optimized and developed predicative assays to determine the efficacious dose range of drugs used to coat pacemaker leads in vitro to reduce costs and risks associated with new product developmentSelected by the Society of Women Engineers as one of the "Top 5 New Faces of Engineering" in 2010.

Collaborated with clinicians at leading orthopaedic hospital to characterize the efficiency of cell retrieval from human meniscus surgically removed from total knee replacements. Evaluated the ability of cells to generate extracellular matrix and yield mechanically functional tissue engineered constructs to demonstrate initial technology feasibility of using human tissue as a therapeutic. First place at 2006 Engineering Research Showcase in graduate divisionPresented research at Biomedical Engineering Society (10/06) and Orthopaedic Research Society (2/07) conferences.Lester B. Knight Scholarship recipient (Recognizes top engineering students with strong potential to serve as leaders in business)

Determined important parameters for membranes of artificial kidney devices through diffusion experiments and concentration assaysManufactured artificial liver and kidney devices using microfabrication techniquesPerformed experiments to examine the production of nitric oxide in cardiovascular cells