Riley, 52, previously served as a corporate officer of the Baylor College of Medicine where he was Vice President and Vice Dean for Health Affairs and Government Relations.
The tremendous, positive impact Riley has had on Meharry Medical's clinical, academic and research programs is credited to his appointment to the board. Under his leadership since 2007, Meharry Medical has increased community, national and philanthropic engagement; it has established three U.S Department of Veteran's Affairs outpatient facilities, created the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy; and has received accreditation for its public health master's degree program.
His academic rank at Meharry Medical is Professor of Internal Medicine, a title he simultaneously holds at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is also a Senior Health Policy Associate at the Robert Wood Foundation Health Policy Center at Meharry.
Other titles under his belt include being a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a Master of the American College of Physicians. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Yale, a Master of Public Health Systems Management from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, an M.D. from the Morehouse School of Medicine and an MBA from the Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business.