McLeod Health welcomes two new members to its medical staff: Dr. Akida J. Green, MD, and Dr. Lisa M. Ryder, MD.

Dr. Green, who is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, has joined the Department of Inpatient Medicine at McLeod Loris Seacoast as a Hospitalist. He comes from the upstate region of South Carolina, where he previously worked at Prisma Health and Incompass Health and 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, he enjoys singing, playing billiards/pool, violin, weightlifting, and board games/card games.

On the other hand, Dr. Ryder has joined McLeod Emergency Physicians and the McLeod Regional Medical Center Medical Staff with a passion for emergent care that began with her service as a paramedic before becoming an emergency medicine physician. She received her medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University College of Medicine of Syracuse in 2017 and completed her Residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Rochester Department of Emergency Medicine in Rochester, New York in 2021