The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont University celebrated its 20th anniversary with a reception at the Nashville restaurant Watermark and awarded Dr. Richard Treadway (Massey ’99) with the inaugural Outstanding Alumni Award. Treadway is a physician who specializes in the treatment of psychiatric patients and in the management of health care systems.
Treadway serves as chairman and CEO of Treadway Enterprises, LLC, the parent company of Treadway Clinic, Treadway Properties and Treadway Capital. Between 2002 and 2005, Treadway Clinic provided psychiatric care to the 3,000 inmates of the Criminal Justice Center of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville. Treadway Properties is involved with the ownership and management of commercial real estate; Treadway Capital is engaged in investments in startup health care companies and banks.
Treadway obtained his undergraduate degree in English from Vanderbilt University. He also attended the Vanderbilt School of Medicine and served an internship in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt. He obtained his psychiatry residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and the Southern Psychiatric Association.
Treadway has served as a member of the Massey School Board of Advisers at Belmont. He was the founder and a member of the board of directors of the Canby Robinson Society, which benefits Vanderbilt University Medical Center; founder and president of the Luton Society, providing support for the Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry; and founder and a member of the board of trustees of Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital.
The Massey School has over 1,300 alumni, with over 1,000 located in the Nashville area. The master of accountancy program is the second largest in the state behind the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. The Princton Review has named the Massey School one of the top business schools in the country for the third consecutive year.
