Interest Statement and Biography

Dr. Green serves as Medical Director of the Acute Pain Service within the Department of Anesthesiology’s Multidisciplinary Pain Center at the University of Michigan. Dr. Green also is the Chair of the Pain Management Steering Committee as well as the UMHHC Institutional Lead for the JCAHO Pain Initiative.

She has previously chaired the Medical Affairs Advisory Committee to the Executive Vice-President of Medical Affairs and was a member of the University of Michigan President’s Violence Against Women Task Force.

Dr. Green’s pain management research focuses on the roles of healthcare utilization and social history in chronic pain, demographics and social history on pain perception, physician variability in pain management, anxiety in postoperative pain, racial and ethnic, aging, and gender variables on pain management and health care disparities in pain management as they relate to vulnerable and underserved populations.