Pastides elected to AMA board of trustees

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Former University of South Carolina president Harris Pastides has been elected to the American Medical Association board of trustees. He will serve a four-year term beginning in June 2020.

Pastides was the 28th president of the University of South Carolina from 2008 until he retired in August.  

Pastides graduated from SUNY Albany with a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry and earned two master’s degrees and a doctorate in epidemiology from Yale University.

The AMA added a public member to its board of trustees in 2002. Pastides is the fifth person to hold the public member position on the board, according to a news release.

“Harris Pastides is an exemplary leader and educator and brings with him a wealth of knowledge, experience and skill to the AMA board of trustees,” Jesse Ehrenfeld, AMA board chair, said in the release. “The AMA is driving the future of medicine by reimagining medical education, training and lifelong learning, and we look forward to benefiting from his expertise in higher education as we work to make medical education easy to access across a physician’s lifetime.”

In December 2018, Pastides was named chair of the board of directors for the S.C. Institute of Medicine and Public Health.