Since March of 2004, Sylvia Drew Ivie has been the Director of The Steering Committee On The Future Of The King/Drew Medical Center. Until February 2005, Ms. Ivie was also Executive Director of T.H.E. (To Help Everyone) Clinic, a non-profit primary health care facility in Los Angeles, California serving primarily African American, Latino, and Asian Pacific Islander patients and their families. A staff of 100 is able to serve patients in ten languages. Prior to her work at T.H.E. Clinic, Ms. Ivie practiced poverty and civil rights law with the National Health Law Program in Los Angeles, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York and the U.S. Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C.

Through participation with the Kaiser Family Foundation Commission on the Future of Medicaid and the Uninsured, President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry and the California Women's Health Council, Ms. Ivie has continued to work on health policy analysis and reform. She was recently appointed to Centers for Disease Control Blue Ribbon Panel on evaluating efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care. In March 2004 she took a partial leave of absence from T.H.E. Clinic, Inc. to work as Project Director of the Steering Committee on the Future of the King Drew Medical Center.