Background

Professor Green has just completed his second three-year term as chair of Dartmouth's department of religion, where he has been a faculty member since 1969. Professor Green is also the director of the Dartmouth College Ethics Institute—a consortium of faculty concerned with teaching and research in applied and professional ethics. He is adjunct professor of community and family medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School and has taught business ethics at the Tuck School. He received his AB from Brown University and his PhD in religious ethics from Harvard University. In 2005, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow.

In 1996 and 1997, Professor Green served as director of the Office of Genome Ethics at the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1994, he was a member of the Human Embryo Research Panel of the NIH, a blue ribbon commission appointed to recommend policy for federal funding of research on the preimplantation human embryo.

Professor Green's research interests are in genetic ethics, biomedical ethics, and issues of justice in health care allocation. He is the author of six books and over 130 articles in theoretical and applied ethics. His most recent book is The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Professor Green serves on the bioethics committee of the March of Dimes. He also heads the Ethics Advisory Board of Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), a company involved in therapeutic cloning research.

In 1998-1999, Professor Green was president of the Society of Christian Ethics. He served two elected terms as secretary of the American Academy of Religion, the largest professional association of religious studies educators in the United States. In 1980, Professsor Green received the Dartmouth Distinguished Teaching Award; this award, given to a single member of the faculty annually, is voted upon by the entire graduating class.