Mary Lynn Davis-Ajami, PhD, MBA, MSN, FNP-C, RN is the Associate Dean of the Indiana University (IU) School of Nursing, Bloomington and an Associate Professor in the department of Science of Nursing Care. Her career spans nursing education, program development and management, advanced nursing practice and management where she envisioned and implemented novel team based care approaches, and years in nursing practice and management to include volunteer work to help establish a clinic for the uninsured, among others. Dr. Davis-Ajami is a health services researcher with expertise using national databases to focus on cost and quality outcomes in complex chronic disease often with policy implications. Her work on joblessness in chronic disease was awarded Best New Investigator Podium Presentation from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR).  She collaborates with interdisciplinary researchers from the fields of economics, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health where they have published extensively. Her funded research include topics related to labor market and workforce development, strategic action planning at the county level to address the opioid epidemic, a healthy school dashboard for school age children with chronic disease, and multiple studies related to cost and quality outcomes in pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease and diabetes.  Her academic teaching has focused on nursing administration with a specialization in health care finance and reimbursement. She holds several awards recognizing both her excellence in nursing practice and in nursing research, to include awards from IU, Novant Health System, the State of North Carolina, and the ISPOR, among others.