Orman Simpson
Title: Senior Administrator, Center for Systems Imaging (CSI) at Wesley Woods
Division: Administration
University: BS Physics, Auburn University
Other: MS Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
MS Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Current Organization: Society of Research Administrators International (SRA International)
Career Sketch: Orman serves as the principal non-physician manager responsible for all of the Center's clinical and research business activities and administrative services. In this role, he assists the program directors, faculty, staff and users in successfully developing, promoting, implementing, and achieving the Center's strategic plans for research growth and translational applications of advanced imaging technology in neuroscience, oncology, predictive health, and other interdisciplinary domains. Orman works closely with the Center's Director, Dr. Meltzer, to manage the operational, financial, and administrative components of the Center.
Orman brings substantial skills to this position from his prior role as Associate Director of the Emory Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), where he managed the OSP corporate contracting group, negotiated research agreements with sponsors (clinical trial and non-clinical trial agreements) and had signature authority on behalf of Emory on the university's corporate sponsored research contracting. Previously, Orman served as a Sr. Licensing Associate with the Emory Office of Technology Transfer, where he managed the patent prosecutions by outside law firms on Emory owned technologies, marketed the technologies for licensing and negotiated licenses with the university's commercial licensees.