Associate Professor
Wake Forest Baptist School of Medicine
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Green began her professional career as a PhD organic chemist, specializing in the synthesis and structure-activity relationships of small organic molecules. Her postdoctoral work included collaborative studies at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, evaluating the anti-cancer potential of synthesized compounds. Next, she developed novel isolation/purification schemes for pharmaceuticals at Abbott Laboratories. For these efforts she received an Abbott President’s Award for individual accomplishment and a Scientist of the Year Award for team achievement.
A keen interest in medicine and a desire to improve children’s health propelled her to a career in medicine. During medical school at the University of Louisville and residency in pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, she integrated clinical duties with basic science investigations. During fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Cincinnati Children’s she investigated how the interaction of heparin with C. albicans contributes to its transformation from a harmless commensal to an organism that can cause life-threatening infection in the blood. These results earned a platform presentation at the Pediatric Academic Society meeting, a first-authored publication, and a patent. Next, as a Senior Instructor at the University of Rochester Medical Center she balanced inpatient and outpatient clinical duties in Pediatric Infectious Diseases with basic research in fungal pathogenesis. Moving to the University of Louisville, she returned to her first passion, clinical work, with the majority of her time dedicated to excellent patient care and improved child health outcomes. In addition to clinical duties she was the director of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Laboratory; for these efforts she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. She recently moved to Winston-Salem to join the Wake Forest University School of Medicine; in addition to clinical and scholarly activity, she serves as the medical director for both pediatric antimicrobial stewardship and pediatric infection prevention at Brenner Children’s Hospital.