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USC Greenville med school celebrates ten years

South Carolina Business Review
SC Public Radio

According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, our country could see a significant shortage of physicians over the next decade. Over the past decade, our next guest’s institution has been working hard to keep that from happening in our state. Mike Switzer interviews Marjorie Jenkins, dean of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.