Dr. Green is Associate Director at the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and lecturer at Harvard Medical School. He has authored articles on topics including cross-cultural education, culturally competent health care systems, and language barriers and interpreters, and has presented his work widely. Dr. Green has been involved in a variety of research projects on racial/ethnic disparities in health and cultural competence and his research has been funded by RWJF, The Commonwealth Fund, NIH, and HCFA (now CMS). He has served on several expert panels and advisory boards including JCAHO's Hospitals, Language and Culture project. He helped produce and implement a documentary film and education project called Worlds Apart, designed to teach health professionals to better care for patients across cultural divides. This is currently used by several hundred organizations around the country. His current research and programmatic interests focus on culturally competent approaches to quality improvement, clinician biases as root causes of racial/ethnic disparities in health care, and cultural competence education for health professionals.

Dr. Green received his Bachelor of Science and medical degree from the University of California, San Diego, and completed his residency training in internal medicine at the New York Hospital—Cornell Medical Center. He joined the faculty at Cornell where he
completed a National Health Services Corps fellowship at a community health center in Queens, New York and developed a teaching curriculum in cross-cultural medicine. He served as Associate Director of the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program at Cornell and Assistant Professor of Medicine. In 2005 he completed a mid-career research fellowship and Masters degree in Public Health at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard School of Public Health.

Selected Publications

1. Green AR, Carney DR, Pallin DJ, Ngo LH, Raymond KL, Iezzoni LI, Banaji, MR. Implicit bias among physicians and its prediction of thrombolysis decisions among black and white patients. J Gen Intern Med 2007; 22:1231-8.

2. Green AR, Betancourt JR, Carrillo JE. Communicating Across Cultures: A Patient-Based Approach to Caring for Immigrants. In: Walker and Barnett:  Immigrant Medicine:  A Comprehensive Reference for the Care of Refugees and Immigrants. Elsevier; 2006.
   
   
3. Green AR, Ngo-Metzger Q, Legedza AT, Massagli MP, Phillips RS, Iezzoni LI. Interpretation, Language Concordance, and Quality Healthcare: Experiences of Asian Americans with Limited English Proficiency. J Gen Intern Med 2005; 20:1050-6.

4. Green AR, Carrillo JE, Betancourt JR. Integrating social factors into cross-cultural medical education. Acad Med 2002; 77:193-197.

5. Green AR. The human face of health disparities. Public Health Reports 2003; 118:303-8.

6. Carrillo JE, Green AR, Betancourt JR. Cross-cultural primary care: a patient-based approach. Ann Intern Med 1999; 130:829-834.

7. Green AR, Carrillo JE, Betancourt JR. Why the disease-based model of medicine fails our patients. West J Med 2002; 176:141-143

8. Betancourt JR, Green AR, Carrillo JE. Defining cultural competence: a practical framework for addressing racial/ethnic disparities in medical care. Public Health Reports 2003; 118:293-302.

9. Green AR, Betancourt JR, Carrillo JE. Providing Culturally Competent Care in the Hospital Setting. In: A Guide to Hospitals and Inpatient Care. Siegler E, Mirafzali S, Foust J, editors. New York: Springer; 2002.

10. Betancourt JR, Green AR, Carrillo JE. Cultural Competence, Quality, and Disparities in Health Care: Recent Trends and Key Perspectives from Managed Care, Government, and Academia. Health Affairs 2005; 24:499-505.

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