Healthcare & Health Services
The Central Carolina region has all the ingredients to grow the Health Services cluster. The region has a good research university and a good School of Medicine. The Central Carolina region has outstanding technical training institutions, a thriving Health Services cluster with 33,000 employees, and a mix of urban and rural populations with high rates of chronic disease.
The supply and demand factors are in place, and the region is poised to connect them. Industry-based leadership could make the critical difference in transforming these ingredients into economic-development opportunities with far-reaching benefits for the entire region.
The University of South Carolina School of Medicine’s distinguished core faculty of basic scientists and clinicians is complemented and enriched by a large number of community physicians who participate in both hospital clerkships and office preceptorships. In addition, USC faculty collaborate with researchers at the South Carolina Cancer Center on the analysis of differential gene expression data, an area ripe for increased computational power and improved statistical data.