Our Story
Rebecca S. Etz, PhD
Co-Director
Location: VCU
Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD
Co-Director
Location: CWRU
This body of work began as a decade-long collaboration between co-directors Rebecca Etz, at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Kurt Stange, at Case Western Reserve University, before receiving founding support from the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation. We continue our quest to build a person-centered vision for health care, grounded in generalism and the craft of healing.
We are driven to create a boundary spanning knowledge of the social, scientific, and deeply human realities in which health is won and lost. We make explicit the vision of whole person, relationship-centered care.
The Green Center uses a layered approach to team-based work. Core team members are employed by VCU or CWRU and regularly work on Green Center projects. Extended Team members include regular thought partners. We are also fortunate to work with a rotating pool of visiting scholars and interns.
Core Team
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James R. Bindas, MBA
Research Analyst
Location: CWRU
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Erin Britton
TBD
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Lainie Conway, JD
Communications, Project Manager
Location: VCU
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Duffy
TBD
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Martha M. Gonzalez, BA
Data Manager, Research Analyst
Location: VCU
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Robin Gotler, MA
Research Analyst
Location: CWRU
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Mary Lee Magee, PhD
Research Analyst
Location: VCU
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Harris Middleton, BA
Coordinator, Administrator
Location: VCU
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Sarah Reves, FNP-C, MBA
Deputy Director, Clinician Researcher
Location: VCU
Extended Team
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Bechtel
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Bitton
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Larry A. Green
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Grumbach
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Hughes
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Moore
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Sullivan
Visiting Scholars and Interns
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Costello
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Fogarty
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Guidry-Drost
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Owen Miller
Intern
Location: U of Richmond
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Lucy Webster
Intern
Location: U of Vermont
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Winter
Our Roots
It was an easy choice to name this Center after Larry A. Green, MD, our mentor and friend. Dr. Green remains a great philosopher, dedicated historian, and tireless promoter of the passion for humanism and healing for which this Center stands. He has held many national leadership positions and has won multiple lifetime achievement awards, yet he never loses his grounding. If allowed to introduce himself, he would state simply: I’m a family doctor.
Our Roots
It was an easy choice to name this Center after Larry A. Green, MD, our mentor and friend. Dr. Green remains a great philosopher, dedicated historian, and tireless promoter of the passion for humanism and healing for which this Center stands. He has held many national leadership positions and has won multiple lifetime achievement awards, yet he never loses his grounding. If allowed to introduce himself, he would state simply: I’m a family doctor.
Our logo
The image used in our logo incorporates three symbols significant to New Zealand Maori.
These symbols continue to provide us with inspiration.
Rauiri, or Maori twist
the central role of lifelong connection and relationships as part of well being; recognition that individuals are parts of larger wholes; friendship; love of family, community, humanity, and all life; recognition of interconnections among all aspects of life – from physical, to mental, to spiritual
Koru, or unfolding fern
represents new life and new beginnings; harmony in self and ancestry; past lineage informing future vision; peace; awakening; personal growth, innovation, rejuvenation, and hope
Muri, or whale fin
strength and courage; intelligence, sensitivity, confidence; speed; external harmony – harmony with surrounding ecologies
Our Friends
We are fortunate to have sustained partnerships around the country in ways that inform and energize our work.