Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chief Operating Officer Joins Orthocare Innovations' Corporate Board of Advisors
July 14, 2009
July 14, 2009
Oklahoma City, OK, July 14, 2009- Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce the addition of Bill Gimson to its Corporate Board of Advisors. Mr. Gimson currently serves as Executive Director of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. In this capacity, Mr. Gimson is charged with investing $3 billion to establish Texas as a world-class leader in cancer research and prevention through collaboration, innovation, and commercialization.
Previously, Mr. Gimson served for 35 years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. At CDC, his senior management roles included Director of the Office of Financial Management, and more recently, as the Agency’s Chief Operating Officer. As CDC’s second ranking official, Mr. Gimson had oversight responsibility for more than 15,000 employees and an annual budget in excess of $10 billion.
Mr. Gimson, who holds an MBA from Duke University, led many of CDC’s most significant and high profile initiatives. These included the development of an almost 4 million square foot capital improvement plan totaling $1.6 billion dollars, improvement of agency security and continuity of operations following 9/11, and preparation for a national outbreak of pandemic influenza. During the first half of 2008, Mr. Gimson served on the ground in Iraq leading a health unit for a Department of State Provincial Reconstruction Team in Tikrit.
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