Description
Wayne J. Riley, M.D., MPH, MBA, MACP, was appointed by the Board of Trustees of The State University of New York (SUNY) as the 17th President of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in January of 2017.
Dr. Riley is an academic primary care general internist with more than 25 years of progressively senior executive level management, policy, and leadership experience in academic medicine, patient care, research administration, academic health center administration, healthcare management, health policy, biotechnology, the corporate sector, government service, advocacy, and organized medicine. Before Dr. Riley’s appointment at Downstate, he served as clinical professor of Medicine and adjunct professor of Health Policy at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and as an adjunct professor of Management at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management. Before his role at Vanderbilt, from 2007-2013, Dr. Riley served with distinction as the 10th president, chief executive officer, and professor of Medicine at Meharry Medical College.
Dr. Riley earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Morehouse School of Medicine, a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology with a concentration in medical anthropology from Yale University, and a Master of Public Health degree in health systems management from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business. In addition, Dr. Riley completed residency training in internal medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, rising from instructor of medicine to vice president and vice dean for Health Affairs and Governmental Relations. At Baylor, he also held the academic rank of associate professor of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Wayne Riley, a national leader in academic medicine and champion for health care equity headlines the 20th Anniversary Frank Bryant Jr., MD, Memorial Distinguished Lecture at UT Health San Antonio.
Location
Holly Auditorium, UT Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio TX 78229
Category:
Alumni Students
