McLay, Laura (Virginia Commonwealth University )

Laura McLay
1015 Floyd Ave, Box 843083 Richmond, VA 23284  USA

Phone: 804-828-5842
Fax:
Email: lamclay@vcu.edu
Website: http://punkrockor.wordpress.com/

Topics:

Homeland/Aviation Security
(Elementary)

Emergency Medical Services
(Elementary)

Public Services
(Elementary)

Background:

• PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• MS,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• BS,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Laura McLay is an assistant professor of statistical sciences and operations research. In five years at Virginia Commonwealth University, she has established a research portfolio in homeland security and emergency management.  Both of these research areas focus on how to manage risk and uncertainty by using discrete optimization methodologies and algorithms.  Her homeland security research focuses on screening issues for aviation and port security in order to prevent a nuclear attack.  Her emergency management research focuses on operational issues in emergency medical service (EMS) and military medevacs systems in responding to emergency calls.  She has a particular interest in combining these two research areas and examining how EMS systems can be adapted to respond to patients during extreme weather events.