Wayne J. Riley

"'Dr. Wayne J. Riley, where he served as vice president and vice dean of health affairs and governmental relations and as an associate professor of medicine.While an undergraduate at Yale University, Riley was a member of Scroll and Key Society.Wayne Joseph Riley, M.D., M.P.H., MBA, FACP (May 3, 1959 -- )Wayne J. Riley, M.D. became the 10th President and Chief Executive Officer of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee on January 1, 2007. Dr. Riley came to Meharry from Baylor College of Medicine where he served as vice-president and vice dean for health affairs and governmental relations and associate professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas. At Houston’s Ben Taub General Hospital, Baylor’s primary public hospital teaching affiliate, he was assistant chief of medicine and a practicing academic general internist and a resident alumnus of Baylor’s highly regarded internal medicine residency training program.

Dr. Riley earned the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in anthropology at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.; the Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree in health systems management from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans; and the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree from the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. In May 2002, he earned the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree from Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management’s (JGSM) MBA for Executives program. While an undergraduate at Yale University, Riley was a member of Scroll and Key Society.

Meharry’s 10th president brings to his new position a broad range of experience in academic medicine, patient care and administration. At Baylor College of Medicine, he was assistant dean for education (2000-2004); co-chaired BCM’s 2003 Education Mission Strategic Planning Task Force; was oversight director of the BCM pre-clinical curriculum; held memberships on Baylor College of Medicine Admissions, Internal Medicine Intern Selection, Primary Care Internal Medicine and Medical Student Core Clerkship committees; and chaired the Teaching of Anatomy Task Force. Dr. Riley also was assistant director of the Baylor Internal Medicine Consultant’s (BIMC) General Internal Medicine Teaching Service at the Methodist Hospital and director of the Baylor Travel Medicine Service. He also was an adjunct professor of management at Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management (JGSM) and co-faculty director of the BCM/JGSM Certificate in Medical and Healthcare Management program.

Prior to pursuing a career in Medicine, Dr. Riley served for five years (1981-1986) in three significant management and policy capacities as a mayoral appointee and close aide and confidant to New Orleans’ late legendary Mayor Ernest N. “Dutch” Morial, rising at the age of 26 to be Executive Assistant to the Mayor for Intergovernmental Relations, the youngest in the city’s history. His areas of responsibility included oversight of the city’s legislative and congressional relations, public affairs, international relations and interactions with the National League of Cities, U.S. Conference of Mayor’s, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Leadership Council, NAACP, Privatization Council and numerous municipal governmental and public policy organizations. In the final days of Mayor Morial’s term of office, he coordinated transition activities as Director of Mayoral transition.

Dr. Riley is a member of several Nashville community service organizations. He was appointed for a three year term as a Director on the Nashville Symphony Association Board of Directors. Dr. Riley serves on the board(s) of Pinnacle Financial Partners, LLC; the Cheekwood Botanical Museum Board of Trust; the Executive Board of Directors of the Middle Tennessee Council Boy Scouts of America; and the Tennessee Institute of Public Health Board of Directors. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Nashville; the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Advisory Council; and the Action on Nashville Steering Committee. Born and reared in New Orleans, Dr. Riley is the eldest of five children of the late Emile Edward Riley, Jr., M.D. (Meharry ’60) and Jacqueline Cerf Riley. Dr. Riley is married to Charlene M. Dewey, M.D., M.Ed, FACP, Associate Professor of Medical Education and Internal Medicine Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. They reside in the Nashville community of Forest Hills and are the proud parents of two daughters.

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[http://www.mmc.edu/administration/president-bio.html bio at MMC]