Robert C. Green MD, MPH
Robert C. Green, MD, MPH is the Associate Director for Research at Partners Personalized Medicine. He is also Professor of Medicine (Genetics) at Harvard Medical School and a physician-scientist who directs the G2P Research Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Broad Institute (genomes2people.org) in translational genomics and health outcomes.
Biography
Research Achievements: Dr. Green led the first experimental trials disclosing common complex disease risk (REVEAL Study) and the first prospective studies of direct-to-consumer genetic testing services (PGen Study). He currently leads and co-leads the first NIH funded randomized trials of sequencing in adults (MedSeq Project), newborns (BabySeq Project), and active duty US military personnel (MilSeq Project). He created the concept of aggregate penetrance of genomic variants in prospective population cohorts and is demonstrating the feasibility of genomic sequencing in healthy newborns, paving the way for humans to gain lifelong medical benefits from genomics. With continuous funding from NIH for 26 years he has published more than 300 papers with an h index of 89. In 2014, he won the Coriell Prize for Scientific Achievement in Personalized Medicine, and in 2019 was named by BIS Research as one of the 25 most influential voices in precision medicine. Since joining the Harvard Medical School faculty in 2011, the G2P research team has been awarded research support of over $40 million.
Research Leadership: Dr. Green recently co-chaired the Steering Committee of both the Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research program (18 NIH grants, over 300 investigators), and the Steering Committee of the Newborn Sequencing in Genomic Medicine and Public Health program (4 NIH grants, over 100 investigators) and is a co-investigator on the Boston site within the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network. He is Associate Director for Research of Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine and is leading the development of protocols for return of genomic results for the All of Us Research Program of the United States Precision Medicine Initiative and the Google/Verily Project Baseline.
Policy Leadership: Dr. Green is accelerating the worldwide implementation of medical genomics. He was lead author on the influential recommendations for managing incidental findings in clinical sequencing from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and contributing author on recommendations for managing incidental findings in research biobanks among participants and among family members of participants. He is a Board Member of the Council for Responsible Genetics and works within the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health and the All of Us Research Program on designing efforts to return research information, particularly genomic information, to research participants.
Clinical Care: Dr. Green directs the Preventive Genomics Clinic at Brigham Health, providing evidence-based genomic and multi-omics evaluation to early adopters seeking to anticipate and prevent future illness.
Entrepreneurship: Dr. Green co-founded Genome Medical, a telegenomics technology and services company providing genetics expertise to patients, providers, employers and healthcare systems.
Education
- 1976: BA, Biology and English, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
- 1980: MD, Medicine, University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, VA
- 2000: MPH, Epidemiology, Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA
Publications
- Green RC, Lupski JR, Biesecker LG. Reporting genomic sequencing results to ordering clinicians: incidental, but not exceptional. JAMA. 2013 Jul 24; 310(4):365-6.
- Green RC, Christensen KD, Cupples LA, Relkin NR, Whitehouse PJ, Royal CD, Obisesan TO, Cook-Deegan R, Linnenbringer E, Butson MB, Fasaye G, Levinson E, Roberts JS: A randomized noninferiority trial of condensed protocols for genetic risk disclosure of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement.2015; 11(10):1222-30.
- Vassy JL, McLaughlin HL, MacRae CA, Seidman CE, Lautenbach D, Krier JB, Lane WJ, Kohane IS, Murray MF, McGuire AL, Rehm HL, Green RC: A one-page summary report of genome sequencing for the healthy adult. Public Health Genomics. 2015; 18(2):123-9.
- Christensen KD, Dukhovny D, Siebert U, Green RC: Assessing the costs and cost-effectiveness of genomic sequencing. J Pers Med, 2015; 5(4):470-86.
- Christensen KD, Roberts JS, Whitehouse PJ, Royal CDM, Obisesan TO, Cupples LA, Vernarelli JA, Bhatt DL, Linnenbringer E, Butson MB, Fasaye G-A, Uhlmann WR, Hiraki S, Cook-Deegan R, Green RC, for the REVEAL Study Group: A randomized trial of disclosing incidental pleiotropic genetic risk information. Annals Int Medicine, 2016; 164(3):155-63.
- Green RC, Goddard KAB, Jarvik GP, Amendola LM, Appelbaum PS, Berg J S, Bernhardt Biesecker LG, Biswas S, Blout CL, Bowling KM, Brothers KB, Burke W, Caga-Anan CF, Chinnaiyan AM, Chung WK, Clayton EW, Cooper GM, East K, Evans JP, Fullerton SM, Garraway LA, Garrett JR, Gray SW, Henderson GE, Hindorff LA, Holm IA, Lewis MH, Hutter CM, Janne PA, Joffe S, Kaufman D, Knoppers BM, Koenig BA, Krantz ID, Manolio TA, McCullough L, McEwen J, McGuire A, Muzny D, Myers RM, Nickerson DA, Ou J, Parsons DW, Petersen GM, Plon SE, Rehm HL, Roberts JS, Robinson D, Salama JS, Scollon S, Sharp RR, Shirts B, Spinner NB, Tabor HK, Tarczy-Hornoch P, Veenstra DL, Wagle N, Weck K, Wilfond BS, Wilhelmsen K, Wolf SM, Wynn J, Yu JH: The Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research Consortium: Accelerating the evidence-based practice of genomic medicine. Am J Hum Gen, 2016;6:1051-66.
- Linderman MD, Nielsen DE, Green RC: Personal genome sequencing in ostensibly healthy individuals and the PeopleSeq Consortium. J Pers Med, 2016; Epub ahead of print, pii: E14. doi: 10.3390/jpm6020014.
- Berg JS, Agrawal PB, Bailey DB, Beggs AH, Brenner SE, Brower AM, Butler I, Cakici J, Ceyhan-Birsoy O, Chan K, Chen F, Currier RJ, Dukhovny D, Green RC, Harris-Wai J, Holm IA, Iglesias B, Joseph G, Kingsmore SF, Koenig BA, Kwok P-Y, Lantos J, Leeder JS, Lewis MA, McGuire AL, Milko LV, Mooney SD, Parad RB, Pereira S, Petrikin J, Powell BC, Powell CM, Puck JM, Rehm HL, Risch N, Roche M, Shieh JT, Watson JM, Willig L, Yu TW, Urv T, Wise AL. Newborn sequencing in genomic medicine and public health. Pediatrics, in press.
- Krier JB, Kalia SS, Green RC: Genome sequencing in clinical practice: Applications, challenges and opportunities. Dialogues in Clin Neurosci, in press.
- Krieger JL, Murray F, Roberts JS, Green RC: The impact of personal genomics on risk perceptions and medical decision making. Nature Biotech, in press.
Presentations
Presentations & Media: Scientific plenary presentations include American College of Medical Genetics/Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor, AGBT, European Society for Human Genetics and BioData World. Presentations to business include Forbes Healthcare Summit, World Science Festival, Future of Genomic Medicine, Exponential Medicine, Festival of Genomics, Aspen Ideas Festival, SXSW, Asian Healthcare Leadership and JP Morgan. His work and commentary have been featured on PBS television/radio, NBC Nightly News, CBS Sunday Morning, Today Show, CNBC, the Doctors, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, New Scientist, FastCompany, GenomeWeb, Gizmodo and Buzzfeed. Research findings from Genomes2People Research are highlighted in these podcasts, blog posts and videos.
Research Support: Dr. Green’s research is supported by grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Snite Foundation and the Franca Sozzani Fund for Preventive Genomics.
Disclosures: Dr. Green receives compensation for advising the following companies: AIA, Applied Therapeutics, Helix, Humanity, Verily and Veritas; and is co-founder of Genome Medical, Inc, a technology and services company providing genetics expertise to patients, providers, employers and care systems.
Awards and honors
- 2012: BRIght Futures Prize, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Research award
- 2014: Coriell Personalized Medicine Award, Coriell Institute Innovative Leadership in Personalized Medicine