GHS 2011 Board of Trustees
The Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS) Board of
Trustees is a volunteer board. It is made up of 12 members representing
Greenville County, as well as two seats that are outside of the county.
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Chair
Jerry E. Dempsey
Vice Chair
R. Dennis Hennett
Secretary
Benjamin L. Allen, Jr., M.D.
Members
Harry A. Chapman, Jr.
Frances DeLoache Ellison
S. Hunter Howard, Jr.
Margaret L. Jenkins
Rita M. McKinney
James C. Morton, Jr.
Thomas E. Simmons
Benjamin B. Waters, III
William M. Webster, IV
Benjamin L. Allen, Jr., M.D.,
is the Secretary of the GHS Board of Trustees. He is the former chief
of staff at the Greenville Shriners Hospitals for Children. He earned
his BS degree at Wofford College, graduating Summa Cum Laude. He earned
his Doctor of Medicine at Duke University and completed his residency in
orthopaedic surgery at Duke Hospital and affiliated institutions. He is
a former board member of Greenville’s Ronald McDonald House and former
member of the state medical advisory committee for children’s
rehabilitative services. He previously served as faculty at Duke
University School of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical
Branch.
Widely published, he currently holds positions as professor
of orthopaedic surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina;
adjunct professor of bioengineering at Clemson University; and clinical
professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of South Carolina
School Of Medicine.
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Harry A. Chapman, Jr.,
a native South Carolinian, has been a practicing attorney at law in
Greenville since 1960 and currently practices with Chapman, Harter &
Groves, P.A. He earned a BA degree and a law degree from the University
of South Carolina.
Mr. Chapman has served in both the S.C. House of
Representatives and the S.C. State Senate. In the Senate, he chaired the
Medical Affairs Committee and the Education Committee. He was named
Legislator of the Year by the Greenville News-Greenville Piedmont for
1984. In 1987, Mr. Chapman was awarded the Order of the Palmetto. He has
formerly served as a member or officer of the board of a number of
leading South Carolina universities, institutions and agencies,
including as president of the Greenville County Bar Association. He is
currently a member of the American Bar Association and the S.C. Bar
Association. He currently serves as a member of the University Center of
Greenville Board of Advisors.
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Jerry E. Dempsey is
the current Chair of the GHS Board of Trustees. He is the retired board
chairman and CEO of PPG Industries Inc., a Fortune 500 company. He also
served as Vice Chairman of WMX Technologies (now Waste Management Inc.)
and chairman and CEO of its Chemical Waste Management subsidiary. A
Landrum native, he is a mechanical engineering graduate of Clemson
University. He earned a master’s degree in business administration from
Georgia State University and attended the executive seminar of Aspen
Institute of Humanistic Studies.
He has served on the board of directors of numerous publicly
traded companies, including Eastman Chemical, Nalco Chemical,
Borg-Warner Corporation, Waste Management, Birmingham Steel and Navistar
International. He has been active in civic affairs throughout his
career. He has received numerous honors from Clemson University for his
distinguished service and co-chaired the Commission on the Future of
Clemson University and its corporate committee in Clemson’s capital
campaign. In 1995, he received a Horatio Alger Award from the Horatio
Alger Association of Distinguished Americans and the Anti-Defamation
League American Heritage Award. He twice received Financial World
Magazine’s service business CEO of the Year bronze award.
In Greenville, he has been a member of the Peace Center for
the Performing Arts Board, an elder in First Presbyterian Church,
treasurer of the Presbyterian Community Foundation, a board member of
Greenville Country Club and President of the Greenville Symphony.
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Frances DeLoache Ellison is
the immediate past Chair of the GHS Board of Trustees. A lifelong
resident of Greenville, she earned a BA degree from Vanderbilt
University and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of South
Carolina. She was a practicing attorney with the firm of Haynsworth,
Sinkler & Boyd from 1978-1990 where her primary field of practice
was health care.
Ms. Ellison has held numerous leadership roles on the boards
of leading area corporations, organizations and institutes of learning.
She currently serves as co-chair of Greenville Women Giving, a special
initiative of the Community Foundation of Greenville, and as a trustee
of the Joe C. Davis Foundation. She has served as an elder of Fourth
Presbyterian Church, and she currently serves the church as an endowment
trustee.
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R. Dennis Hennett is
the Vice Chair of the GHS Board of Trustees. He is the retired CEO of
Greer State Bank and has 38 years of banking experience. He attended the
American Bankers Association’s Stonier Graduate School of Banking at
Rutgers University, where he received his graduate degree in banking. He
earned both his Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees from
Furman University. He is a native of Woodruff.
He’s long been active in the community and has garnered
numerous awards. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Greer
Bancshares Inc., the parent company of Greer State Bank, the Greer
Development Corporation’s board of directors and the BMW Community
Advisory Panel.
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S. Hunter Howard, Jr., is
a former S.C. legislator and retired president and CEO of the S.C.
Chamber of Commerce. Under his leadership, the organization received
recognition by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 2006 as the first state
chamber to be Accredited with Distinction. He is currently a partner in
the CPA firm Scott & Company, LLP. A native of Fountain Inn, he
earned a BS in accounting from the University of South Carolina and
later completed Harvard University’s Program in Senior Executives in
State and Local Government.
He managed his own CPA firm, Hunter Howard & Company,
for approximately eight years, during which time period he was also
elected to the state’s House of Representatives as the state’s youngest
legislator at that time. He has received numerous awards, including the
Order of the Palmetto. He has served as a member of the S.C. Board of
Economic Advisors, the Charleston Southern University Board of Trustees,
the S.C. Retirement System Investment Panel and United Way of South
Carolina. He currently serves on boards such as the Greenville Hospital
System, Greenville Technical College Foundation, South Carolina Higher
Education Foundation and the Clemson University ICAR Economic Council.
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Margaret L. Jenkins,
of Greenville, is founder and president of Margaret Jenkins &
Associates, a Greenville-based consulting firm specializing in strategic
marketing and philanthropic development. A native of Los Angeles, she
earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of
Colorado.
Ms. Jenkins has an extensive background in consumer
marketing and advertising and was previously senior vice president and
chief marketing officer of Spartanburg-based Denny’s Corp. She is also
the former chief marketing officer of El Pollo Loco Restaurants, a
500-unit Southern California-based company. In addition, she has held
various senior management positions with Taco Bell Corp. and PepsiCo
International Foodservice and has extensive experience in advertising
agency management. She is a director of Phillips-Van Heusen Corp., a New
York-based international apparel and retail company. Ms. Jenkins is an
avid supporter of the visual and performing arts and is a trustee of the
Greenville Symphony Association and Artisphere. She also serves on the
board of Greenville Women Giving.
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Rita M. McKinney currently
practices with McNair Law Firm, where she directs the firm’s Upstate
employment and labor practice and was listed as one of the Best Lawyers
of America (2007, 2008). She has also served as director of the South
Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. She earned a BA
in journalism from the University of South Carolina and a Juris Doctor
degree from Northeastern University School of Law.
She as served as president of the Greenville County Bar
Association, on the S.C. Bar’s ethics advisory and judicial
qualifications committees and was elected president of the National
Association of Government Labor Officials. She also served as president
of the USC Alumni Association and on the USC Board of Trustees and the
Columbia College Board of Visitors, with civic participation including
Greenville Urban League, United Way of Greenville, Warehouse Theatre and
participation in Leadership Greenville and Leadership South Carolina.
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James C. Morton, Jr.,
is a retired vice chairman of Nissan North America, with 30 years
experience working for international companies in senior management
positions. He is presently under contract with various companies in an
advisory role for government relations and community affairs. As
president of the Nissan Foundation for six years, he was responsible for
a 100 percent increase in its corpus. He received a law degree from the
University of Missouri School of Law and a BA degree from Westminster
College. He also served in the U.S. Army, where he awarded a Bronze
Star during his service in South Vietnam, and in the Missouri Army
National Guard.
As vice president of Nissan, he focused on Nissan’s federal,
state and local government and community affairs activities. He was
particularly focused on Nissan’s diversity efforts, both internally and
in communities where Nissan had a significant presence. He served on the
National Urban League for three years. He has served on boards or
leadership positions with groups such as S.C. Chamber of Commerce,
California Chamber of Commerce, National Urban League, Greenville Tech
Foundation Inc., S.C. Ports Authority and the Hollings Cancer Center at
the Medical University of South Carolina.
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Rev. Thomas E. Simmons is
pastor of Reedy Fork Baptist Church of Simpsonville, where membership
has increased 75 percent under his leadership. He graduated from the
Interdenominational Theological Center at Morehouse School of Religion
in Atlanta, Ga., and earned a bachelor’s degree from South Carolina
State University.
Prior to going into the ministry, he worked at W.R. Grace
& Co., Cryovac Division, Simpsonville. He has served as moderator of
the Reedy River Baptist Union of Churches and as chairman of the
Greenville Convention and Visitors Bureau. He has also served as a board
member of the Urban League of the Upstate and the National Baptist
Convention USA Inc.
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Benjamin B. Waters, III,
is the retired president of Cunningham-Waters Construction Co., Inc. in
Greer, which he helped grow from a $500,000 company to a $10 million
company. Mr. Waters earned a BA from The Citadel and an AS in civil
engineering technology in Greenville Technical College. Waters also
served as an officer in the U.S. Army for nearly a decade.
Civic experience includes serving as a board member and
president of the Greer Lions Club, director of the Greer Chamber of
Commerce, and director and chairman of the board of the Citizens Building
and Loan Association, 120 million dollar Federally Chartered Thrift. He
is a member and committee chair of the Governor’s Workforce Investment
Board. He has also served on boards affiliated with Greenville Technical
College and North Greenville University, as well as serving on the
Governor’s Education Taskforce for Excellence in Public Education. He
has received numerous awards and honors, including being inducted into
the Citadel’s Arland D. Williams Society in recognition of his
outstanding humanitarian service to the community. He is a past deacon
chair and Sunday School teacher at the First Baptist Church of Greer.
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William M. Webster, IV,
of Spartanburg, is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board for Advance
America, Cash Advance Centers, Inc., and has previously served in the
White House. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of
Virginia School Of Law in 1983 and a Bachelor of Arts in English and
German from Washington & Lee University in 1979, where he graduated
Summa Cum Laude. He attended Germany’s University of Regensburg on a
Fulbright Scholarship.
Mr. Webster served multiple roles in the White House,
including as assistant to the president and director of scheduling and
advance, where he was responsible for the coordination and planning of
all presidential events with management responsibility for a staff of 25
full-time and 300 part-time employees. He also served as chief of staff
to U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and chief of staff for
the presidential transition where he was responsible for coordination
and administration of sub-Cabinet appointments in the Clinton
Administration. Previously, he was president of Greenville-based Carabo
Inc., which at that time operated 27 Bojangles Chicken ‘n Biscuit
restaurants in S.C. His community activities include service as chairman
of the Board of Trustees for Converse College and on the Washington and
Lee University Board of Trustees, the MD Anderson Medical Center
Board of Visitors, the Spartanburg Day School Board of Trustees and
Liberty Fellows Board of Directors.
GHS Executive Team
President and Chief Executive Officer
Michael C. Riordan
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Gregory J. Rusnak
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Terri T. Newsom
Vice President of Strategic Services
Malcolm W. Isley
Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel
Joseph J. Blake, Jr.
Vice President of Institutional Advancement
George F. Maynard, III
Chief of Staff
Tod N. Tappert
Vice President of Medical Services and Dean of Academic Services
Jerry R. Youkey, M.D.
Vice President of Information Services and Chief Information Officer
Doran A. Dunaway
Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Human Resource Officer
D. Douglas Dorman
Vice President of Community and Governmental Affairs
H. Howell Clyborne, Jr.
Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety
Thomas W. Diller, M.D., M.M.M.
Vice President of Academic Development
Brenda J. Thames, Ed.D.
Medical Director, University Medical Group
William P. Marshall, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Angelo Sinopoli, M.D.
Chief Academic Officer
Spence M. Taylor, M.D.
Chief Nursing Officer
Michelle Taylor Smith
Joseph J. Blake, Jr.,
Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel, joined Greenville
Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS) in 2007. Blake provides
legal support primarily related to the hospital system’s business
operations, transactions with other providers and the GHS Board of
Trustees. He also oversees the legal work provided to GHS by outside law
firms.
Prior to joining GHS, Blake served as shareholder and
managing partner of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A., a law firm in
Greenville, South Carolina, specializing in corporate and healthcare
law. While there, he served as lead corporate attorney for GHS for more
than 15 years and was listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for more
than a decade.
Blake is a member of the South Carolina Bar and the American
Lawyer’s Association. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from
Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and a Juris
Doctor degree from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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H. Howell Clyborne, Jr.,
Vice President of Community and Governmental Affairs, joined Greenville
Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS) in 1998. Clyborne is
responsible for the hospital system’s marketing, public relations,
physician relations and governmental affairs. Prior to joining GHS, he
served as deputy chief of staff of the Office of the Governor of South
Carolina and as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
Clyborne is a member of the South Carolina Economic Board of
Advisors and was awarded the Order of the Palmetto by the Governor of
South Carolina in 1994 and 1997. He earned a bachelor’s degree in
political science from the University of South Carolina.
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Thomas W. Diller, M.D., M.M.M.,
Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety, joined Greenville
Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS) in 2008. Dr. Diller is
responsible for ensuring optimal organizational clinical performance. He
also leads several departments, including quality management/patient
safety/risk management, infection prevention and control, management
engineering (performance improvement) and medical staff affairs.
Dr. Diller also heads up the Program for Quality and Patient
Safety to perform research into finding ways to improve quality and
patient safety. He serves on several state-wide quality committees and
is Adjunct Faculty in the Industrial Engineering Department at Clemson
University.
Prior to joining GHS, Dr. Diller served as chief medical
officer for Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois. He also served as
chief medical officer for a large physician group practice and a
provider-owned managed care company as well as medical director of an
emergency department.
Dr. Diller is certified by the American Board of Internal
Medicine and is a member of several professional societies, including
the American College of Physician Executives, American College of
Healthcare Executives and the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Diller earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from
Illinois Wesleyan University. He earned his medical degree and completed
a residency in internal medicine at the Southern Illinois University
School of Medicine. He is also a Certified Physician Executive and has a
master’s degree in medical management from the H. John Heinz, III,
School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.
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D. Douglas Dorman,
Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Human Resource Officer,
joined Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS) in
1995. Dorman is responsible for the hospital system’s employment,
employee relations, compensation, benefits, employee education,
diversity, child care services, employee health and language services.
Prior to joining GHS, he served as vice president of human resources for
Horizon Hospital System in western Pennsylvania.
Dorman is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare
Executives and certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources. He
earned a bachelor’s degree in religion from Middlebury College in
Vermont and a master’s degree in business administration from the
University System of New Hampshire.
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Doran A. Dunaway,
Vice President of Information Services and Chief Information Officer,
joined Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS) in
1998. Dunaway is responsible for strategic development and management of
information, information resources and technology which support the
hospital system’s mission and goals. He also leads various corporate
functions, including a referral center, bed management, ambulance
services and call center.
Dunaway has 26 years of experience in the planning,
management and control of information technology and business processes.
Prior to joining GHS, he served as an information services consultant
and oversaw the management of a large information technology
organization for one of the largest medical group practices in the
country.
Dunaway is an active member in the Health Information
Services Executive Association. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s
degree in engineering with a specialization in computer science from the
University of Louisville.
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Malcolm W. Isley,
Vice President of Strategic Services, joined Greenville Hospital System
University Medical Center (GHS) in 2007. Isley is responsible for
strategic planning and strategy development, business and network
development, marketing, communications and affiliations. Prior to
joining GHS, he served as associate vice president of business and
network development at Duke University Health System.
Isley serves on the YMCA Metro Board and the Greenville Tech
Foundation Board. He earned a bachelor’s degree in speech communication
from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree in health
administration from Duke University.
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William P. Marshall, M.D.,
Medical Director of the GHS University Medical Group and Chairman
of the Department of Community and Family Medicine, has been on the GHS Medical
Staff since 1971 and joined the Greenville Hospital System University
Medical Center (GHS) in 1994. Dr. Marshall is responsible for the
administrative support of the employed physicians including the
community practices of GHS.
Dr. Marshall is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family
Physicians and is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. He
earned a bachelor’s degree in Science – Medicine from Tennessee
Technological University and a medical degree from the University Of
Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis, Tennessee. He served a family
medicine residency at GHS from 1971 through 1973 and practiced family
medicine at Riverside Family Practice from 1974 through 2006.
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George F. Maynard, III,
Vice President of Institutional Advancement, joined Greenville Hospital
System University Medical Center (GHS) in 2003. Maynard is responsible
for generating philanthropic revenue in support of the hospital system’s
strategic plan and providing administrative leadership to the Office of
Research Support and Administration and Safe Kids Upstate. Prior to
joining GHS, Maynard served as a philanthropy consultant to several
non-profit organizations and as president of the Orlando Regional
Healthcare Foundation in Florida.
Maynard is a Fellow in the Association for Healthcare
Philanthropy (AHP), and in 2007, received the Harold J. “Si” Seymour
award for distinguished service to AHP and the field of philanthropy. He
earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of
Mississippi and a master’s degree in social work administration from the
University of Tennessee.
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Terri T. Newsom,
Vice President of Financial Services and Chief Financial Officer, joined Greenville Hospital
System University Medical Center (GHS) in March 2011. Newsom is
responsible for all financial functions of the hospital system and its
affiliates, including accounting, treasury, budgeting, revenue cycle,
corporate integrity and material services. Prior to joining GHS, she was
the associate vice president for ambulatory care finance at Duke
University Health System and the divisional Chief Financial Officer of
Duke Raleigh Hospital.
Newsom has been involved in health care since 1991 when she
joined Duke University Hospital as a senior budget and financial
analysis analyst. While at Duke, she served on the boards of community
and civic organizations and was also a member of the North Carolina
Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from
Appalachian State University and is a certified public accountant.
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Michael C. Riordan,
President and Chief Executive Officer, joined Greenville Hospital
System University Medical Center (GHS) in 2006. Riordan is responsible
for leading the 1,268-bed system, one of the largest not-for-profit
healthcare providers in the Southeast with more than 10,000 employees
and operating revenues of approximately $1.4 billion. In 2011, GHS
provided more than $283 million in quantifiable benefits to its surrounding
communities.
Prior to joining GHS, he served as president, chief
executive officer and trustee of the University of Chicago Hospitals and
Health System and as chief operating officer, and later, senior
associate hospital administrator of Emory University Hospital and
Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. He also served three years
in the United States Marine Corps as a lieutenant.
Riordan currently serves as an assembly representative for
the Association of American Medical Colleges and on the administrative
board of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems. He is a
member of several boards, including the South Carolina Chamber of
Commerce, Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce, Health Sciences South
Carolina and the Urban League of the Upstate, Inc.
Riordan earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts/English
and a master’s degree in education/psychology from Columbia University
in New York, as well as a master’s degree in health systems from the
Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Gregory J. Rusnak,
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, joined Greenville
Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS) in 1996. Rusnak is
responsible for the operation of the hospital system’s five medical
campuses, which include a 746-bed academic medical center, three
satellite acute care hospitals, a long-term acute care hospital,
psychiatric hospital and comprehensive rehabilitation hospital. He is
also responsible for a 650-member multi-specialty physician practice and
several corporate support departments, including human resources,
campus and facility development, information technology and nursing.
Prior to joining GHS, Rusnak held senior level positions
with Sutter Health in Northern California and served as a hospital
administrator at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in
Houston.
Rusnak is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare
Executives and a member of the South Carolina Hospital Association. He
earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Gannon University in Erie,
Pennsylvania, and a master’s degree in health services administration
from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
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Angelo Sinopoli, M.D.,
Chief Medical Officer, Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Senior Assistant Dean of Clinical
Affairs, and Medical Director of the Office of Total Health, joined
Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS) first as a
resident in 1982. After completing his residency here in 1985 he
returned in 1987 as a member of the Pulmonary Critical Care faculty.
As chair of the Internal Medicine Department, Dr. Sinopoli
oversees approximately one hundred physicians in various practices,
including Internal Medicine faculty and specialists system-wide, 40
hospitalists and the Internal Medicine residency program.
Dr. Sinopoli is board certified by the American Board of
Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. He is a
member of several professional societies, has authored numerous
abstracts and journal articles, and presented at multiple conferences.
He holds a professorship position at the University of South Carolina
School of Medicine. He has earned several teaching awards from the
Medical School.
Dr. Sinopoli earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the
University of South Carolina and a medical degree from the Medical
University of South Carolina. Following his internship at GHS, he
completed a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the
University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
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Michelle Taylor Smith, RN, MSN, NE-BC, FACHE,
Chief Nursing Officer, joined Greenville Hospital System University
Medical Center (GHS) in 2011. Smith is responsible for providing
strategic and operational leadership, while assuring a high level of
quality patient and family care throughout the hospital system. Prior to
joining GHS, Smith served as senior vice president of patient care
services and chief nurse executive at TriHealth, Inc., in Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Smith is a member of a number of organizations, including
the American Organization of Nurse Executives, American College of
Healthcare Executives and Health Advisory Board. She has also served on
the executive committee of the United Way and Lymphoma Society, the
board of the YWCA, and the advisory board of Good Samaritan and Xavier
University.
Smith earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of
Toledo and master’s degree in nursing from the Medical College of Ohio.
She was named a Fellow in the American Academy of Health Executives in
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Tod N. Tappert,
Chief of Staff, joined Greenville Hospital System University Medical
Center (GHS) in 2007. As senior staff to the president and CEO,
Tappert’s duties include overseeing and developing major communications
for key audiences, such as the Board of Trustees, physicians, leadership
and staff; facilitating and monitoring organizational and senior
management goals and development; and representing the CEO on a variety
of system task forces focused on advancing GHS strategic goals. He is
one of two executive sponsors of the organization’s Leadership
Development efforts related to GHS Commitment to Excellence.
He also worked with GHS President and CEO Michael Riordan
prior to joining GHS, serving as special assistant to him while Riordan
was president and CEO of University of Chicago Hospitals and Health
System. Tappert has more than 20 years of experience in health
administration and planning/public policy, including executive and
leadership positions at the Greater Illinois Chapter of the National
Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Health Care and the American Hospital Association-affiliated Society for
Ambulatory Care Professionals. He also served as a strategic planner
and senior health policy analyst at the American Medical Association.
Early in his career, as part of the Presidential Management Program, he
worked in health policy and budgeting roles with the federal government.
Tappert is a member of the Metropolitan Arts Council of
Greenville board of directors. He earned a bachelors degree in political
science and religious studies from the University of Michigan. In
addition, he holds a master’s degree in public health administration
from the School of Public Health and a master’s of public policy and
planning from the Humphrey Institute of Public Policy, both at the
University of Minnesota.
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Spence M. Taylor, M.D.,
Chairman Department of Surgery and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
joined the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS) in
1992. He was named Chairman and Program Director in 1998. Over the past
decade the Department of Surgery has experienced unprecedented growth under his leadership, the academic programs have flourished with the
expansion of the general surgery residency, the addition of the state's
only vascular surgery residency, and development of a minimal access
surgery fellowship and vascular medicine fellowship.
Dr. Taylor is certified by the American Board of Surgery in
general surgery, general vascular surgery, and is a registered vascular
technologist. He is a member of most major surgical organizations and
has held offices in several. He has authored numerous book chapters,
abstracts and journal articles. In addition, he holds the academic
appointment of professor at the University of South Carolina School of
Medicine.
Dr. Taylor earned a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from
Clemson University and a medical degree from the Medical University of
South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. He did his internship and
general surgery residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in
Charleston and a residency in peripheral vascular surgery at Baylor
College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
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Brenda J. Thames, Ed.D.,
Vice President of Academic Development, joined Greenville Hospital
System University Medical Center (GHS) in 2007. Dr. Thames is
responsible for providing academic strategic direction and leadership
for initiatives designed to advance patient care through education and
research. She also works with local colleges and universities to develop
collaborative relationships that are focused on healthcare.
Prior to joining GHS, Dr. Thames served as associate dean
for research and graduate studies in the College of Health, Education
and Human Development at Clemson University.
Dr. Thames is a member of the American Association of Family
and Consumer Sciences. She earned a bachelor’s degree in home economics
from Mississippi State University as well as a master’s degree in
guidance and counseling and a doctorate in vocational and technical
education from Clemson University.
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Jerry R. Youkey, M.D.,
Vice President of Medical Services and Dean of Academic Services,
joined Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS) in
1998. Dr. Youkey is responsible for the hospital system’s research and
education activities as well as strategic and operational physician
initiatives. He also serves as chief medical officer of GHS’ University
Medical Group, which is made up of 400 employed physicians.
Prior to joining GHS, Dr. Youkey served as chief of the
department of surgery and director of the peripheral vascular fellowship
program at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania. He also
served in the United States Army Medical Corps and was honorably
discharged in 1984 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Dr. Youkey is certified by the American Board of Surgery in
general surgery and general vascular surgery. He is a member of several
professional societies and has authored numerous books, abstracts and
journal articles. In addition, he holds the academic appointment of
professor and associate dean at the University of South Carolina School
of Medicine and the Medical University of South Carolina.
Dr. Youkey earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from
Stanford University and a medical degree from Marquette University in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served a rotating internship and general
surgery residency at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso,
Texas, and a fellowship in peripheral vascular surgery at Walter Reed
Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.