Michael C. Riordan

Michael C. Riordan is President and CEO of Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS), one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare providers in the Southeast.

Since Riordan began his duties at GHS in August 2006, he has emphasized communication and collaboration. He works with physicians and employees to make GHS a great place to work, receive care and practice medicine.

Prior to joining GHS, Riordan led the University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System from 2001 to mid-2006. From 1995 to 2000, he 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.

Under his leadership, GHS has collaborated with community groups to make possible innovative initiatives such as a rails-to-trails corridor called the Swamp Rabbit Tram Trail and other healthier-living catalysts such as an expanded Activate Upstate and a low-cost wellness partnership for patients at risk for chronic disease. GHS has also launched a program to help local businesses improve employee health while still curtailing company heath costs.
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Riordan is active in healthcare leadership and the community, including the following:

• Three-year term as an assembly representative for the Association of American Medical Colleges
  
  
• Administrative board member of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems
  
  
• Member of the Society of Health Services Administrators
  
  
• Works closely with economic development groups, including as board director for the S.C. Chamber of Commerce and Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce
  
  
• Board member and former president of Health Sciences South Carolina
  
  
• Regional board member of the Urban League of the Upstate Inc.
  
  
• Board trustee of the Peace Center for the Performing Arts
  
  
• Frequent speaker at area civic clubs, community groups and religious organizations
  
  

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.

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Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center is a 1,268-bed system, which has anticipated operating revenues of approximately $1.2 billion in fiscal year 2009, is home to 12 residency and fellowship programs, South Carolina’s first patient simulation center and nearly 600 clinical research trials. GHS provides patients a sophisticated network of expertise and technologies through its tertiary medical center, research and education facilities, community hospitals, wellness centers, physician practices (University Medical Group) and numerous specialty facilities in upstate South Carolina. In 2008, GHS provided $223 million in quantifiable benefits to its surrounding communities.