Department of Anesthesiology

Department of Anesthesiology- Research Division

	Carmen R. Green, MD Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Health Management and Policy Phone: 734-936-4240 Fax: 734-936-9091 Email: carmeng@umich.edu

Dr. Green received a B.S. in Biology from the University of Michigan. She received a M.D. from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) National Honor Medical Society and did an internship in Internal Medicine. After completing a residency in Anesthesiology with subspecialty training in Ambulatory and Obstetrical Anesthesiology, she did a fellowship in Pain Management at the University of Michigan Multidisciplinary Pain Center.  She also did a fellowship in health services research at the Association of American Medical Colleges' (AAMC) Health Services Research Institute, and was selected to participate in the National Institute of Aging's Summer Research Institute. Dr. Green, an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, was awarded tenure in 2003 (the first African American to do so) and her tenure package was highlighted to The University of Michigan Regents.

Dr. Green is principal investigator for the Michigan Pain Outcomes Study Team (M-POST), an Attending Physician in the Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Director of the Health Disparities Research Program for the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, and Director for the Dissemination and Health Policy Core for the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research. She is the former medical director for the Acute Pain Service, founding chair of the Pain Management Steering Committee (institutional lead for pain), former chair of the Medical Affairs Advisory Committee to the Executive Vice-President for Medical Affairs, and former member of the University of Michigan President's Violence Against Women Task Force.

Dr. Green served on the American Society of Anesthesiologists' (ASA) Committee on Pain Management, as faculty for both the AAMC's Junior Women and Minority Faculty Career Development Seminars, the ASA Committee on Professional Diversity, ASA Committee on Practice Parameters, and Task Force for updating Practice Guidelines for Acute Pain Management in the Perioperative Setting. She is an active member of several scientific organizaitons, founding chair of the American Pain Society's Special Interest Group for Pain and Disparities, serves on the editorial board for Pain Medicine and The Journal of Pain, and was guest editor for Pain Medicine's first special issue on disparities in pain care.

Dr. Green is on the Institute of Medicine's Health Care Services Board, Center Healthcare Research and Transformation Board, SafeHouse Center's Board, and is an elected member of the Association of University Anesthesiologists. Dr. Green's health services research agenda focuses on pain management outcomes, physician decision-making, and access to care. She has spoken widely on disparities due to age, race, gender, and class, structural barriers to health, physician variability in decision-making, and health policy.

Selected News and Media:

"Editorial: Reforms are needed for Fair Pain Treatment."  The Detroit News February 22, 2005.  
"Pain goes untreated for many minorities."  The Detroit News February 20, 2005.
"Clinic eases pain of patients."  The Detroit News February 20, 2005.    
"Women fight to have pain taken seriously."  The Detroit News February 20, 2005.
"Thresholds: With Pain, Older is Better."  The New York Times February 1, 2005.
"Vital Signs: For the Record- Disparities in Drug Availability."  The New York Times May 11, 2004.  

Selected Recent Publications:

Peer-reviewed Publications

Green CR, Ndao-Brumblay SK, Hart-Johnson T. Sleep problems in a racially diverse chronic pain population. Clin J Pain. 2009 Jun; 25(5): 423-30. [PubMed]

Montague L, Green CR. Cancer and breakthrough pain's impact on a diverse population. Pain Med. 2009. [PubMed]

Caldwell J, Hart-Johnson T, Green CR. Body mass index and quality of life: examining blacks and whites with chronic pain. J Pain. 2009; 10(1):60-7. [PubMed]

Green CR, Montague L, Hart-Johnson TA. Consistent and breakthrough pain in diverse advanced cancer patients: a longitudinal examination. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2008. [PubMed]

Green CR. The healthcare bubble through the lense of pain research, practice, and policy: advice for the new President and Congress. J Pain. 2008; 9(12):1071-3. [PubMed]

Fuentes M, Hart-Johnson T, Green CR. The association among neighborhood socioeconomic status, race and chronic pain in black and white older adults. J Natl Med Assoc. 2007; 99(10):1160-9. [PubMed]

Green CR. Racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of pain care: the anesthesiologist's call to action. Anesthesiology. 2007 Jan;106(1):6-8.

Green C, Todd KH, Lebovits A, Francis M. Disparities in pain: ethical issues. Pain Med. 2006 Nov-Dec; 7(6):530-3.

Todd KH, Green C, Bonham VL Jr, Haywood C Jr, Ivy E. Sickle cell disease related pain: crisis and conflict. J Pain. 2006 Jul;7(7):453-8.

Ndao-Brumblay SK , Green CR. Racial differences in the physical and psychosocial health among black and white women with chronic pain. J Natl Med Assoc. 2005; 97(10):1369-77. [PubMed]

Green CR, Ndao-Brumblay SK, West B, Washington T. Differences in prescription opioid analgesic availability: comparing minority and white pharmacies across Michigan . J Pain. 2005; 6(10):689-99. [PubMed]

Baker TA, Green CR. Intrarace differences among black and white americans presenting for chronic pain management:  the influence of age, physical health, and psychosocial factors.  Pain Medicine. 2005; 6(1):29-38. [PubMed] 

Book Chapters

Green CR: Unequal burdens and unheard voices: Whose pain? Whose narratives?  In: Carr DB, Loeser JD, Morris DB (ed) Narrative, Pain, and Suffering: Progress in Pain Research and Management. Vol 34, IASP Press, 2007.  (In Press).

Green CR: Disparities in assessing and managing pain: The role of patient and physician variability in decision-making.  In: Satcher D, Pamies P (ed) Multicultural Medicine and Health Disparities.  McGraw-Hill, 2007.  (In Press).  

Research Divisions