GME Advisory Group

The Graduate Medical Education (GME) advisory group that will help the SCDHHS restructure its Graduate Medical Education GME policy and payments to better meet the physician workforce demands in South Carolina.

Fred Carter, Ph.D., President, Francis Marion University, Chairman
Graham Adams, Ph.D., CEO, Office of Rural Health
Senator Thomas Alexander, South Carolina Senate
Charles D. Beaman, Jr., CEO, Palmetto Health
Richard Hoppman, M.D., Dean, and Caughman Taylor, M.D., Interim Dean, USC School of Medicine
Patrick Cawley, M.D., CEO, Medical Center, MUSC
Donald L. Ellis, CPA, Board Member, Clarendon Memorial Hospital
Edwin Evans, M.D., Seneca Lakes Family Medicine Residency
Timothy J. Kowalski, D.O., Dean, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
John A. Miller, Jr., CEO, Anmed Health
Representative Joseph Neal, South Carolina House of Representatives
Mary L. Piepenbring, VP, Duke Endowment
Michael C. Riordan, President & CEO, Greenville Health System
Lisa Wear-Ellington, President & CEO, SC Business Coalition on Health
Gerald Wilson, M.D., SCMA Nominee, Past President, SCMA Board of Trustees