Carmen Green, M.D.

Carmen R. Green, M.D., is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan Medical School as well as an attending physician at the Center for Interventional Pain Medicine, Director for Pain Research, founding Chair of the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) Pain Management Steering Committee, and former Medical Director for the Acute Pain Service at UMHS. She received a B.S. in biology from the University of Michigan-Flint and an M.D. from the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. She completed an anesthesiology residency and a pain medicine fellowship at UMHS. She has received fellowships from the American Association of Medical Colleges Health Services Research Institute and theHedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM), and was the inaugural Mayday Pain and Societyfellow. Her research examines the effects of sociodemographic factors on pain management and health outcomes as well as clinician variability in pain management decision-making and the quality of pain care. She has spoken widely on disparities in pain care, is a reviewer for many scientific journals and the National Institutes of Health, and is on the editorial board for several scientific journals. Her scientific service includes work for the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Pain Society, the International Association for the Study of Pain, Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine, and the Gerontological Society of America. She is the founding Chair of the American Pain Society's Special Interest Group for Pain and Disparities and was guest editor of a special issue of Pain Medicine devoted to racial and ethnic disparities in pain care. Dr. Green has received several honors, including UMHS Employee of the Year, UM Woman of Color of the Year for Human Relations, Consumer Checkbook’s Top 100 Doctors, and the UM Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award. She served on the board of directors for the Community Dental Center, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and the National Pain Foundation. In 2005, she was elected to the Association of University Anesthesiologiststs.