Amy Cohn
Professor
Industrial and Operations Engineering
Engineering
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amy Ellen Mainville Cohn is an Alfred 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) and serves on the leadership team of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI). She holds an AB 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.
Projects:
workgroup leader-cohort development
University Affiliation(s)
CHEPS | IHPI | MCIRCC
Research Area(s)
Health services research | Public policy and social science
Publications
- Computer Modeling to Evaluate the Impact of Technology Changes on Resident Procedural Volume
- Innovative Scheduling Solutions for Graduate Medical Education
- Achieving Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty hours compliance within advanced surgical training: a simulation-based feasibility assessment
Grants
- Funded by: COHN, Amy E
- Funded by: COHN, Amy E
- Co-investigator of: A quality and cost analysis of interprofessional team continuity in ICUs