2022 Prisma Health Research Showcase

Health Sciences Center

Like a traditional academic health center, the Health Sciences Center at Prisma Health partners with South Carolina’s two largest research universities and most prominent liberal arts university. The center also includes programs for other health professions and a robust research and innovation agenda.

Where we differ is that we partner with multiple affiliate universities and degree-granting institutions. We leverage the existing competencies and resources of our partners, rather than duplicating costly infrastructures, to meet shared objectives. We are also the only academic medical center led by a health system, and our mission has a strong clinical focus rather than academic only. Additionally, we do not grant degrees but work collaboratively with our academic and clinical partners to bring more value to students, employers, and the community.

Transformation of health requires new approaches and solutions not yet developed, from the best and brightest minds in academia as well as the front lines of healthcare. Unique in the country, our organization brings three strong academic institutions together with a leading health system to foster new ideas and bring them to life with efficiency, leverage and speed.

Prisma Health

Prisma Health provides a clinical environment for education and research, as well as the following:

Office of Innovation identifies, assesses and markets commercially viable technology developed by Prisma Health personnel, manages industry collaborations, and helps attract new businesses and jobs to the region.

Division of Research ensures that each HSC partner organizations’ healthcare research and scholarship activities align with the community’s needs and the partnership’s goal to improve and innovate patient care.

Physical offices supporting the Health Sciences Center are located on the Prisma Health medical campuses in Greenville and Columbia.

Clemson University

A Carnegie R1 university, Clemson University is one of the most productive public research universities in the nation, with over $100m in external research funding awarded in 2019.

Furman University

Furman University is the oldest private university in South Carolina and one of the nation’s premier liberal arts and sciences universities.

University of South Carolina

The University of South Carolina is South Carolina’s flagship university, with more than 200 years of academic leadership, and a Carnegie Foundation top tier school for research and community engagement.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the Prisma Health Research Showcase planning committee:

Kevin Bennett, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia
Thomas Britt, Clemson University
Charles Carter, Prisma Health
Christina Dye, Prisma Health
Steve Fiester, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
Lucia Gonzales, Clemson University
Shalon Howard, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia
Matt Hudson, Prisma Health
Desmond Kelly, Prisma Health
Ann Blair Kennedy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
Julian Kim, Prisma Health
Kristy Maher, Furman University
Caroline Rudisill, University of South Carolina
Windsor Sherrill, Prisma Health & Clemson University
Hagan Walker, Prisma Health