Michael C. Riordan

Michael C. Riordan joined Greenville Health System in 2006. Riordan is responsible for leading this highly integrated system, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare providers in the Southeast with 1,662 beds and 159 practice sites, nearly 15,000 employees, including over 1,200 affiliated and employed medical staff, and operating revenues exceeding $2 billion. In 2015, Prisma Health provided more than $400 million in quantifiable benefits to its surrounding communities.

Prior to joining Prisma Health, 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 the Furman University Board of Trustees and serves on the advisory board for Clemson University’s Robert J. Rutland Institute for Ethics. Riordan also serves on the Healthcare Advisory Board for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s CEO Council on Health and Innovation. He is immediate past chairman of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce and a former board member and chair of the Urban League of the Upstate.

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.