The HSSC Board of Directors promotes, encourages, and aids scientific investigation and research by HSSC-related faculty, staff, and students and provides or helps provide the mechanisms by which their scientific discoveries, inventions, and processes may be developed, applied, or patented. The board also provides the means by which funds generated by such discoveries or patents can be used to stimulate and promote further investigation and research at HSSC members’ facilities.
The board promotes, develops, and administers privately and publicly sponsored scientific and other scholarly research projects and develops and manages the discoveries, inventions, processes, and information resulting from those projects.
The board promotes, supports, and aids any and all other activities and programs that will further the educational, research, clinical, and related programs of HSSC and its members.
Charles D. Beaman, Jr. (Chair)
President and CEO
Palmetto Health
Charles D. “Chuck” Beaman, Jr., is president and CEO of Palmetto Health, the largest integrated health care delivery system in South Carolina. Palmetto Health includes a regional teaching hospital and tertiary center, two acute care hospitals, a heart hospital, and a children’s hospital. Prior to the creation of Palmetto Health, Mr. Beaman served as president and CEO of Baptist Healthcare System of South Carolina, Inc. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of South Carolina and his master's degree in hospital administration from the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
James F. Barker, FAIA President
Clemson University
Clemson University's 14th president, James F. Barker, FAIA, is first and foremost an architect. He came to the office with a clear blueprint of Clemson's future in mind—to become one of the nation's top public universities. To achieve this vision, Mr. Barker led the development of 10-year goals and an action plan built around collaboration, focus, relevance, and academic quality. He is a recipient of the National Distinguished Professor Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, of which he is a past president. Mr. Barker earned his bachelor of architecture degree from Clemson in 1970 and his master of architecture and urban design degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1973.
Raymond S. Greenberg, MD, PhD
President
Medical University of South Carolina
On January 1, 2000, Raymond S. Greenberg, MD, PhD, became the eighth president of the Medical University of South Carolina. The author of about 150 scientific publications, Dr. Greenberg is nationally recognized for his research on the causes of cancer, with a particular focus on cancer among African Americans. Dr. Greenberg graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1976 with highest honors in chemistry. He completed his medical studies at Duke University in 1979 and received a master of public health degree from Harvard University in 1980. Dr. Greenberg undertook training in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital before returning to North Carolina to complete a doctorate in epidemiology in 1983.
Bruce Holstien
President and CEO
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System
Bruce Holstien, president and CEO of Spartanburg Regional, began his health care career in high school, where he worked part time in a hospital kitchen. He has held positions in medical services, ambulatory care, health insurance, and hospital administration. Before assuming leadership of Spartanburg Regional in 2011, he served as president and CEO of CHRISTUS Spohn Health System in Corpus Christi, Texas. Prior to that, he was an executive with Sentara Health System in Norfolk, Virginia. Mr. Holstien has undergraduate and graduate degrees in business administration.
Jay Moskowitz, PhD
President
Health Sciences South Carolina
On September 24, 2007, Jay Moskowitz, PhD, became the first president of Health Sciences South Carolina. He began his career at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), rising to the position of principal deputy director and deputy director for science policy and technology transfer in the Office of the Director. In 1989, Dr. Moskowitz was selected as the founding director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. In 1995, he was recruited by Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where he served as senior associate dean for science and technology. He also served as associate vice president for health sciences research at Pennsylvania State University; vice dean for research and graduate studies at the Penn State College of Medicine; and chief scientific officer at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Harris Pastides, PhD, MPH
President
University of South Carolina
Harris Pastides, PhD, MPH, the University of South Carolina's 28th president, was previously vice president for research and health sciences at South Carolina. He is also executive director of the university's Research Foundation. Under Dr. Pastides' leadership, research funding and sponsored programs at South Carolina have increased 69.2 percent since 2002, reaching a record $185.2 million for fiscal year 2007. Dr. Pastides served as dean of the university's Arnold School of Public Health from 1998 to 2003. He was instrumental in helping to secure a $10 million gift from Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold for the naming rights to the school in 2002.
Michael C. Riordan
President and CEO
Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center
Michael C. Riordan began his duties as president and CEO of Greenville Hospital System on August 15, 2006. From 2001 to mid-2006, Mr. Riordan led the University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System, which was named to U.S. News & World Report’s prestigious Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals—the top 16 hospitals in the nation. He received 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’s degree in health systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
