About
Spence M. Taylor M.D. is the CEO of Integral Leaders in Health (ILH), a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to lead the direction of medicine where patient well-being is the priority. Dr. Taylor, previously the president of the Greenville Health System (GHS)— now part of Prisma Health— is a nationally known academic physician leader with 30 years’ experience as a surgeon, professor, researcher, and senior executive. During his 27-year tenure at GHS, he served in nearly every capacity to include surgery department chair, leader of the employed medical group, dean and, chief academic officer. A Clemson graduate, Dr. Taylor is a member of every important academic organization in surgery, holding leadership positions in several. That includes chairing the American Board of Surgery from 2018-2019. He is the author or co-author of over 120 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and two books. In his capacity as Planning Dean from 2009 to 2012, Dr. Taylor engineered the development of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville—North America’s 136th medical school. He brought the Clemson University School of Nursing to the Greenville Memorial Hospital campus and was responsible for GHS joining the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC) in 2013 as the nation’s 100th academic health center. In addition to clinical outcomes after lower extremity revascularization, of which he is widely published, Dr. Taylor often lectures on the role of physicians as leaders in medicine—a topic to which he has devoted his entire career.
How their research is transforming health care
Spence is currently overseeing the creation of a new, innovative academic health center model, the first of its kind in the country. In partnership with three of South Carolina’s best universities, Prisma Health is becoming a nucleus of innovative research and expert healthcare methods at his direction.
Health research keywords
general surgery, vascular surgery
