McLeod Health is pleased to announce the addition of two new members to its medical staff. Dr. Akida J. Green, MD, has joined the Department of Inpatient Medicine at McLeod Loris Seacoast as a Hospitalist, while Dr. Lisa M. Ryder, MD, has joined McLeod Emergency Physicians and the McLeod Regional Medical Center Medical Staff.

Dr. Green, who is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, comes to McLeod from the upstate region of South Carolina, where he previously worked at Prisma Health and Incompass Health. He also served as the Medical Director of the Anderson Free Clinic in Anderson, South Carolina. Dr. Green completed his medical degree at Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine (NEOUCOM) in 2004 and finished his Internal Medicine Residency at Summa Akron City Hospital, Akron, Ohio, in 2007. In his free time, Dr. Green enjoys singing, playing billiards/pool, violin, weightlifting and board games/card games.

On the other hand Dr. Ryder is a native of Rome New York her passion for emergent care began with service as a paramedic which led her to become an emergency medicine physician . She received her medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University College of Medicine of Syracuse , New York in 2017 and completed her Residency in Emergency Medicine at University of Rochester Department of Emergency Medicine , Rochester ,New York in 2021 . Along with her husband Justin Hartley she enjoys travel , cooking , hosting social events and spoiling their dogs Shadow and Luna .

McLeod Health and the Florence community warmly welcome Dr. Green and Dr