SUNY appoints new president for financially challenged Downstate Medical Center
Dr. Wayne Riley to begin in April
The State University of New York (SUNY) board of trustees on Tuesday announced the appointment of Dr. Wayne J. Riley as president of financially troubled SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn.
Riley, a native of New Orleans, is currently a clinical professor of medicine and adjunct professor of health policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Prior to that he was the president and CEO of Meharry Medical College.
Riley is also a past president and president emeritus of the American College of Physicians, and chair of the Administration of Health Services, Education and Research Section of the National Academy of Medicine. Riley sits on the board of HCA Holdings, Inc.