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Larry A. Green, MD

Professor, Epperson Zorn Chair for Innovation in Family Medicine and Primary Care

 

 

 

Mail Stop F496, Academic Office 1

12631 East 17th Avenue

Aurora, CO 80045

 

303-724-1599 Office

 

larry.green@ucdenver.edu

 
 
 
ABOUT ME:

Dr. Green was born and raised in Ardmore, Oklahoma, graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a major in psychology. After graduating from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, he did his residency in family medicine in Rochester, New York at Highland Hospital and the University of Rochester.  He practiced medicine in Van Buren, Arkansas, in the National Health Service Corps, before joining the faculty at the University of Colorado. He has remained a faculty member here throughout his career, during which he has served in various roles, including practicing physician, residency program director, developer of practice-based research networks, and department chair.  In 1999 he became the founding director of the Robert Graham Center, a research policy center sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians focused on family medicine and primary care, in Washington, D.C.  He served on the Steering Committee of the Future of Family Medicine Project that propelled the patient-centered medical home forward. He directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Prescription for Health national program focused on incorporating health behavior change in redesigned primary care practices. He is a founding board member for Partnership 2040, a community based participatory research enterprise in the Denver area.  He has received the Curtis Hames Award and the Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research.  He is a regular member of the Institute of Medicine.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

The development of family medicine as an academic discipline, crucial to high performance, sustainable health care with particular focus on practice-based research and policy development concerning the prevalent conditions that effect large numbers of people, frequently.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

In 2010, he is Chair of the Council overseeing the community engagement component of the Colorado Clinical Translational Sciences Institute funded by the National Institutes of Health; a member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics; Co-chair of the Steering Committee for Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice, a national comparative case study of family medicine residency innovations; and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine. He directs Advancing Care Together (ACT) a developing program intended to integrate the care of people with emotional and behavioral problems.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: 
  • North American Primary Care Research Group
  • World Organization of Family Doctors
  • Society of Teacher of Family Medicine
  • American Academy of Family Physicians
PUBLICATIONS AND GREY LITERATURE:
  1. Green LA, Simmons RL, Reed FM, Warren PS, Morrison JD.  A Family Medicine Information System:  The Beginning of a Network for Practicing and Residency Family Physicians, J Fam Pract, 1978; 7:567-576.
  2. Green LA, Wood M, Becker L, Farley ES, Freeman WL, Froom J, Hames C, Niebauer LJ, Rosser WW, Seifert M.  The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network:  Purpose, Methods, and Policies, J Fam Pract, 1984; 18:275-280.
  3. ASPN.  Spontaneous Abortion in Primary Care.  A Report from ASPN.  J Amer Brd Fam Prac, 1988; 1:15-23.
  4. Green LA, Calonge BN, Fryer GE, Reed FM.  Age/Sex Registries in Primary Care Research.  A Report from ASPN.  Fam Med, 1988; 20:185-188.
  5. Green LA, Reed FM, Miller RS, Iverson DC.  Verification of Data Reported by Practices for a Study of Spontaneous Abortion.  A Report from ASPN.  Fam Med, 1988; 20:189-191.
  6. Froom J, Culpepper L, Grob P, Bartelds A, Bowers P, Bridges-Webb C, Grava-Gubins I, Green L, Lion J, Somaini B, Stroobant A, West R, Yodfat Y.  Diagnosis and Antibiotic Treatment of Acute Otitis Media:  Report from International Primary Care Network.  BMJ, 1990; 300:582-586.
  7. Green LA, Murata PJ, Lynch WD, Puffer JC, A Characterization of the Imminent Leadership Transition in Academic Family Medicine.  Academic Medicine, 1991; 66:154-158.
  8. Culpepper L, Froom J, Bartelds AI, Bowers P, Bridgesk-Webb C, Grob P, Grava-Gubins I, Green L, Lion J, Rosser W, et al.  Acute Otitis Media in Adults.  A Report from the International Primary Care Network.  JABFP, 1993; 6:333-339.
  9. Becker LA, Green LA, Beaufait D, Kirk J, Froom J, Freeman WL.  Detection of Intracranial Tumors, Subarachnoid Hemorrhages, and Subdural Hematomas in Primary Care Patients: A Report from ASPN, Part 2.  J Fam Prac, 1993; 37:135-141.
  10. Green LA, Miller RS, Reed FM, Iverson DC, Barley GE.  How Representative of Typical Practice are Practice-Based Research Networks?  A Report from ASPN.  Arch Fam Med, 1993; 2:939-949.
  11. Green LA, Hames CG, Nutting, PA.  Potential of Practice-Based Research Networks: Experiences from ASPN. J Fam Prac, 1994; 38:400-406.
  12. Alpert JJ, Friedman RH, Green LA.  Education of Generalists: Three Tries a Century Is All We Get! J Gen Int Med, 1994; 9(S1):4-6.
  13. Green LA.  Science and the Future of Primary Care.  J Fam Prac, 1996; 42(2):119-122.
  14. Green LA, Fryer GE.  The Development and Goals of the AAFP Center for Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care.  J Fam Prac, 1999; 48: 905-908.
  15. Mold JW and Green LA.  Primary Care Research.  Revisiting Its Definition and Rationale. J Fam Pract, 2000; 49:206-208.
  16. Green LA.  The View From 2020:  How Family Practice Failed.  Fam Med 2001;33:320-4.
  17. Green LA. Putting Practice Into Research:  A 20-year Perspective.  Family Medicine, 2000; 32: 396-7. 
  18. Green LA, Dovey SM.  Practice Based Primary Care Research Networks. T hey work and are ready for full development and support.  BMJ 2001;332:567-8.
  19. Green LA, Fryer GE, Yawn BP, Lanier D, Dovey SM.  The Ecology of Medical Care Revisited.  N Engl J Med 2001; 344:2021-5.
  20. Chen FM, Rhodes LA, Green LA,and The Robert Graham Center. Family Physicians’ Personal Experiences of their Fathers’ Health Care.  J Fam Pract 2001; 50:762-766.
  21. Duane M, Green LA, Dovey SM, Lai S, Graham R, Fryer GE.  The length and content of family practice residency training:. J Am Board Fam Pract 2002;15:201-8.
  22. Fryer GE, Meyers DS, Krol DM, Phillips RL, Green LA, Dovey SM, Miyoshi TJ.  The association of Title VII funding to Departments of Family Medicine with choice of physician specialty and practice location.  Fam Med 2002;34:436-40.
  23. Green LA, Fryer GE.  Family practice in the United States:  Position and prospects.  Acad Med 2002; 77:781-789.
  24. Dovey SM, Meyers DS, Phillips RL, Green LA, Fryer GE, Galliher FJ, Kappus J, Grob P.  A preliminary taxonomy of medical errors in family practice.  Qual Saf Health Care 2002; 11:233-238.
  25. Graham R, Roberts RG, Ostergaard DJ, Kahn NB, Pugno PA, Green LA.  Family practice in the United States:  A status report.  JAMA 2002; 288:1097-1101.
  26. Dovey SM, Weitzman M, Fryer GE, Green LA, Yawn B, Lanier B, Phillips RL.  The ecology of medical care for children in the United States.  Pediatrics 2003; 111:1024-1029.
  27. Green LA, Phillips RL, Fryer GE.  The Nature of Primary Care.  Oxford Textbook of Primary Medical Care. 
  28. Jones, Britten, Culpepper, Cass, Grol, Mant, Silogy (Eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York; 2004:  Pages 3-10.
  29. Green LA, Graham R, Bagley B, Kilo CM, Spann SJ, Bodgewic SP, Swanson J.  Task Force 1.  Report of the task force on patient expectations, core values, reintegration, and the new model of family medicine.  Ann Fam Med 2004;2(supp 1) S33-S50).  (Correction:  Ann Fam Med 2004;2:370)
  30. The Future of Family Medicine Project Leadership Committee.  The future of family medicine:  A collaborative project of the family medicine community.  Kahn NV (corresponding author).  Ann Fam Med 2004;2:  (Supp 1) S3-S32.
  31. Spann SJ for the Members of Task Force 6 and the Executive Editorial Team.  Task Force Report 6.  Report on Financing the New Model of Family Medicine.  Ann Fam Med 2004; 2:  S1-S21.
  32. Green LA, Dodoo MS, Ruddy G, Fryer GE, Phillips RL, McCann J, O’Neil EH, Klein LS.  The physician workforce of the United States.  A family medicine perspective.  Washington, DC.  The Robert Graham Center, 2004.  (www.graham-center.org) with Workforce Study Power Point Collection.
  33. De Maeseneer JM, van Driel ML, Green LA, van Weel C.  The need for research in primary care.  Lancet 2003; 362:1314-19. (Republished in Dutch:  Huisarts Nu 2005; 34:263-271.)
  34. Glasgow RE, Ory MG, Klesges LM, Cifuentes M, Fernald DH, Green LA.  Practical and relevant self-report measures of patient health behaviors for primary care research.  Ann Fam Med 2005, 3:73-81.
  35. Green LA.  Prescription for Health:  Round 1 Initial Results.  Ann Fam Med 2005; 3 (Suppl 2) S2-S3.
  36. Green LA and Hickner J.  A short history of primary care practice-based research networks: from concept to essential research laboratories.  JABFM 2006; 19:1-10.
  37. Phillips RL, Bazemore AW, Dodoo MS, Shipman, SA, Green, LA.  Family Physician in the child healthcare workforce:  opportunities for collaboration in improving the health of children.  Pediatrics 2006; 118: 1200-1206
  38. Green LA, Jones SM, Fetter G, Jr, and Pugno P.  Preparing the personal physician for practice:  changing family medicine residency training to enable new model practice.  Academic Medicine 2007; 82: 1220-1227.
  39. Green LA, Cifuentes M, Glasgow RE, Stange KC. Redesigning primary care practice to incorporate health behavior change: Prescription for health round-2 results. Amer J Prev Med 2008;35(suppl): S347-S349.
  40. Phillips RL Jr., Dodoo MS, Green LA, Fryer GE, Bazemore AW, McCoy K, Petterson SM. Usual source of care: an important source of variation in healthcare expenditures. Health Affairs 2009;28:567-577.
  41. Green LA. Integration: Time for action, not talk. Behavioral Healthcare, March 2009; 66,68.