Leadership

Board of Directors

Ingo Angermeier, FACHE, Chair

President & CEO
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System

Ingo Angermeier is president and CEO of Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System. With more than 25 years of experience in healthcare, he is a master's prepared Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Mr. Angermeier has had experience in both general and teaching hospitals and multi-specialty group practices in urban and rural settings. From 1995 to March 2001, he worked as CEO at Louisiana State University MedicalCenter. Aside from his work-related successes, Mr. Angermeier has published more than a dozen articles in professional journals and has lectured on various healthcare topics around the country.

James F. Barker, FAIA, Vice Chair

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 of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, which he is a past president. Mr. Barker earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Clemson in 1970 and his Master’s of Architecture and Urban Design degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1973.

Charles D. Beaman, Jr.

President & CEO
Palmetto Health

Charles D. “Chuck” Beaman Jr., is President and CEO of Palmetto Health, the largest integrated healthcare 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 of Science Degree in Hospital Administration from the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

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.

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, 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 (PSU); vice dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Penn State College of Medicine; and chief scientific officer, 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 1998-2003. 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 & 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 of Arts 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 of Science degree in health systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology.