Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and a Fitts Faculty Fellow in Health Systems Engineering. She previously spent several years on the faculty of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Dr. Ivy is actively involved in INFORMS, she is the current president of the Minority Issues Forum and is a past president of the Health Applications Section of INFORMS. She has co-authored more than forty journal articles, working papers, and conference proceedings.