Michael C. Riordan
Michael C. Riordan began his duties in August 2006 as President
and CEO of Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center
(GHS), a not-for-profit academic health organization committed
to medical excellence through research and education. GHS, with
1,268 licensed beds and a total operating revenue budget of approximately
$1.1 billion in fiscal year 2008, includes five campuses that
provide integrated health care to communities across Greenville
County and beyond through a tertiary referral and education center,
community hospitals, short-stay surgical hospital, long-term
acute-care hospital, outpatient facilities, wellness centers
and a nationally recognized cottage-concept senior care center.
GHS, located in upstate South Carolina, has been recognized as
one of the top 100 integrated healthcare networks and top 50
teaching hospitals in the nation.
From 2001 to mid-2006, Riordan led the University of Chicago
Hospitals and Health System. From 1995 to 2000, Riordan was chief
operating officer and, later, senior associate hospital administrator,
of Emory University Hospital and Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta,
Ga. Before that time, he served for three years in the U.S. Marine
Corps as a lieutenant.
Riordan is serving a three-year term as an assembly representative
for the Association of American Medical Colleges after nomination
by the Council of Teaching Hospitals. He joined the Society of
Health Services Administrators and serves on the board of directors
for the South Carolina Hospital Association, the Palmetto Hospital
Trust and PHT Services, Ltd., a healthcare risk management company.
Riordan also works closely with economic development groups,
including as a board director for S.C. Chamber of Commerce and
as board chairman of Health Sciences South Carolina, an innovative
public-private partnership of the state’s leading hospitals
and universities.
Heavily involved in the community, he is a frequent speaker
at area civic clubs, community groups and religious organizations.
In July 2007, he was elected to the board of trustees of the
Peace Center for the Performing Arts.
In addition, Riordan serves on the regional board of the Urban
League of the Upstate Inc. Under his leadership, GHS launched
an initiative to expand GHS’ recruitment of minority-owned
businesses as vendors. GHS has also joined with the University
of South Carolina School of Medicine to help ease the state’s
shortage of minority physicians.
Riordan earned his bachelor’s degree in liberal arts/English
from Columbia University in New York in 1980 and completed his
master’s degree in education/psychology from Columbia in
1981. He earned a Master of Science degree in health systems
from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Updated September 2007
