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 started a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation called Integral Leaders in Health (ILH), of which he is the Chief Executive Officer. The mission of ILH is to broker relationships to improve medical care—the patient’s perception of the healthcare system’s ability to meet their needs. He published a book on the topic and has formed The Physician’s Collaborative—a collection of 600 independent doctors in South Carolina devoted to physician autonomy and engagement . He also serves as the Designated Institutional Official for the SCMA GME Consortium. The SCMA GME Consortium was recently awarded a HRSA grant to start a rural family medicine residency in Newberry Hospital.
Health research keywords
General surgery, vascular surgery, health services research.
