Laurie Green

Laurie Green received her M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School, completing an internal medicine internship at Stanford University Hospitals and an ob/gyn residency at University of California, San Francisco. One job wasn’t enough, so in addition to a sixty-hour-per-week ob/gyn practice, she delivered 15,000 babies, raised two children, served as president of several organizations, including the California Academy of Medicine and the Harvard Medical School Alumni Association, and maintained a decades-long media career as weekly on-air medical correspondent for the Bay Area's KTVU television station. Nearing retirement age, and as an outgrowth of the Harvard Medical School Alumni Council, she founded the MAVEN (Medical Alumni Volunteer Expert Network) Project, which recruits volunteer physicians—many retired or semiretired—to mentor, educate, and advise safety-net primary care providers in over 200 sites across the country. A beneficiary of Jim Emerman’s vision, she was a Purpose Prize fellow in 2017. She now chairs the MAVEN Project board, is vice chair of ob/gyn at CPMC Medical Center in San Francisco, vice president of the San Francisco City and County Health Commission, and still takes 24-hour in-hospital call. When asked what character in contemporary culture she most identifies with, she cites the bus in the movie Speed.