Rate My Professor Larry Green

Larry Green, MD, is a distinguished professor in Medicine at the University of Colorado at Denver, serving as Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and Epperson Zorn Chair for Innovation in Family Medicine and Primary Care at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine. He earned a BA from the University of Oklahoma in 1969, an MD from Baylor College of Medicine in 1973, and completed his family medicine residency at the University of Rochester/Highland Hospital of Rochester in 1976. Joining the University of Colorado faculty in 1977, he has held roles as practicing physician, residency program director, developer of practice-based research networks, and department chair. Green founded and directed the Robert Graham Policy Center in 1999, served as Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine, and sat on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation. He directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Prescription for Health program, which focused on health behavior change in primary care, and led Colorado Health Foundation initiatives including Advancing Care Together and Upstream! Together to integrate behavioral health services and prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral health problems.

A member of the National Academy of Medicine, Green has received the Curtis Hames Award for research in Family Medicine and the Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research. His research specializations include primary care research, family medicine innovation, integrated behavioral health in primary care, residency training redesign, patient-centered medical home models, health behavior change, primary care policy, and community-oriented primary care. Key publications encompass 'How Are You Doing? Really? A Review of Whole Person Health Assessments' (Milbank Quarterly, 2025), 'Storylines of family medicine I: framing family medicine—history, values and perspectives' (Family Medicine and Community Health, 2024), 'The time is now: a plan to redesign family medicine residency education' (Family Medicine, 2022), and editorial contributions such as guest editor for the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine's Keystone IV Conference supplement (2016). His efforts have profoundly influenced primary care practice transformation, health professions education, physician certification, and clinical research approaches.