Stuart Green, M.D.
Clinical Professor

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Email: sgreen@uci.edu

Dr. Green's CV

Clinical Specialty:
Post-trauma reconstruction

Clinical Interests:
Dr. Green is an orthopaedic surgeon whose subspecialty interest deals with post-trauma limb reconstruction, including non-unions, malunions, shortening and post-trauma infections of bones and joints.

During the past 25 years, Dr. Green has lectured and published extensively on matters dealing with his area of expertise. He was the first American to visit Dr. G.A. Ilizarov in Kurgan, Russia and was instrumental in introducing the Ilizarov method of reconstructive surgery to the world's orthopaedic surgeons.

Dr Green is an acknowledged authority on medical ethics as it relates to musculoskeletal care. He has published extensively on the subject of the ethics of surgery for questionable indications as well as ethical considerations related to new medical device development and the unfavorable effect exaggerated medical–legal reports have on patients. He has been invited to lecture about these and related topics as the Presidential Guest Speaker for the Annual Meetings of both the Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society (2006), and The American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (2006), as well as the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons (2004). Likewise, he has given invited lectures on the topic of medical ethics as it relates to orthopaedic surgery and surgical research at Harvard University School of Medicine (2003, 2006), Stanford University School of Medicine (2001), USC School of Medicine (2009), UCSF School of Medicine (1999), University of Connecticut School of Medicine (2003), and many other distinguished institutions, national organizations and foreign orthopaedic associations.

As a result of these interests, publications and speakerships, Dr Green became a member of the Committee on Ethics of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in 2007, and has served on the Ethics Committee of UCI Medical Center. He is a member of the Association for Medical Ethics.

When the medical journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research formed a website and "wiki" for orthopaedic surgery residents, Dr. Green was asked to write a monthly blog about medical ethics and related topics. It is accessible on the web at www.orthopaedia.com. (One must log in as an orthopeadic surgeon to use the orthopaedic wikipedia and to read the blogs.)

In 2008, Dr. Green served on a panel dealing with the ethical considerations involving surgeon-industry relations. Other panel members included: Jack Mitchell, Chief Investigator for the U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Aging; Peter Winn, Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice; Felicia Cohn, PhD, Director of Medical Ethics at UCI; and Dr. Charles Rosen, Founder of the Association for Medical Ethics.

The year 2008 was the 75th anniversary of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. To celebrate the event, the AAOS published a book on the history of American orthopaedic surgery called “Moving Stories” and produced a companion DVD titled “Moving Pictures.” Dr. Green’s role in our nation’s orthopaedic history is featured in both the book and the movie. The chapter from the book containing Dr. Green’s involvement with Russian orthopaedist G. A. Ilizarov can be read at the following link: http://www.aaos75th.org/stories/physician_story.htm?id=14 while his interview for the movie is found on this webpage: http://www.aaos75th.org/interviews/anniversary_interviews.htm.

In January 2009, The Medscape Journal of Medicine asked Dr. Green to present a video editorial about teaching moral reasoning and professional ethics to medical students, interns and residents through review articles in the medical literature. The resulting editorial (“Let’s Teach Moral Reasoning to the Next Generation of Doctors”), available at: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/586030, elicited favorable comments from viewers around the world. (A login name and password may be required to view this video editorial, but they are easy for physicians to obtain by registering on the Medscape website.)

Dr. Green is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the June 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Biomechanics Section), talking about ethical consideration related to surgical implant development and clinical testing.

Research Interests:
Dr. Green has been actively engaged in research at two of UC Irvine's biomedical research labs. At the Biomechanic Lab at the Long Beach Veteran's Hospital, Dr. Green works with Thay Q. Lee, Ph.D. on problems related to the biomechanics of external skeletal fixation and internal fixation devices. In conjunction with Vincent Caiozzo Ph.D., Dr. Green studied the effect limb lengthening has on muscle tissue with the goal of the reducing the complication associated with limb elongation.

Background:
Dr. Green received his undergraduate degree from Lafayatte College and his medical doctorate degree from New York Medical College. He completed his surgical internship and residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York. Dr. Green completed fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Diego. He currently serves as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Green is the Deputy Editor for Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research; he has served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, the Associate Editor for Advances in Orthopaedic Surgery, and the Associate Editor for Techniques in Orthopaedics.

His interest in the history of medicine in colonial America resulted in the book "Dear Doctor Franklin; Emails to a Founding Father about Science, Medicine and Technology" Further information is available at deardoctorfranklin.com.

Dr. Green’s focus on Benjamin Franklin and his publication of “Dear Doctor Franklin” resulted in an invitation from the Saturday Evening Post (founded by Franklin in 1728) to Dr. Green to contribute to a weekly blog, “What Would Ben Franklin Say,” on their website. There, Dr. Green considers many aspects of modern life, such as the election of a president of African ancestry, and offers a guess at what Benjamin Franklin would have to say about the matter. His blogs are available at the Saturday Evening Post’s website without a password. Here’s a link to a typical blog: http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/03/26/ben-franklin-blog/aig-bonuses.html

Dr. Green also works as a photographer (see www.stuartgreenphotos.com) and a painter (see www.stuartgreenpaintings.com).

Medical Degree:
New York Medical College

Residency:
Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York

Fellowship:
Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Diego

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Dr. Nitin Bhatia and Dr. Thay Lee were presented with the prestigious "Harold and Nancy Willingham Award for Outstanding Research Paper" at the meeting of the Western Orthopaedic Association this year. Drs. Bhatia and Lee presented their paper, entitled "Biomechanical Evaluation of Short-Segment Posterior Instrumentation with Crosslinks In An Unstable Human Burst Fracture Model".

The WOA, with more than 1,700 members, held it's 73rd annual meeting in Seattle, Washington.

Dr. Bhatia, an orthopaedic surgeon and Dr. Lee, a Ph.D Research Career Scientist/Biomedical Engineer, are on staff at University of California at Irvine.