Dr. Manning currently holds a seat as a Director on ICA’s Board of Directors. He is the Chief Administrative Officer for Vanderbilt Medical Center (VMC), and also serves in the Vanderbilt University roles of Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Senior Associate Dean for Operations and Administration, School of Medicine.
Dr. Manning’s diverse career path as a civil engineer, environmental scientist, professor, strategic planner and core facilities research manager today yields an abundance of benefits in his work at Vanderbilt and as an ICA board member. Among the most relevant is his business and budgetary acumen as an analyst and administrator of the enterprise, where he utilizes technology to connect numerous researchers from a variety of disciplines across an institution to share resources without duplication of efforts.
Prior to his present work at Vanderbilt University, he was a group research leader in bioremediation at Argonne National Lab during the 1990s and also served on the faculty of the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Throughout his career, Dr. Manning has co-authored numerous published papers focused on his research in the area of hazardous waste environmental decontamination using bioremediator microbes, and has participated in Administrative Reviews at the National Institutes of Health, McGill University in Montreal, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.
Dr. Manning earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Notre Dame and pursued post-doctoral studies in bioremediation at the Harvard School of Public Health. He also earned a post-doctoral MBA from the University of Chicago’s Executive MBA Program.
