Dr. Michael Green

January 30, 2025

Dr. Michael Green is President, Vice-Chancellor, Dean and CEO of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University, where he is also Professor of Family Medicine in the Division of Clinical Sciences. He is Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University where he also has an active adjunct research appointment, and a Senior Adjunct Scientist at  IC/ES. He served as the 70th President of the College of Family Physicians of Canada from Nov 2023 to Oct 2024.  He was the Brian Hennen Chair and Head of the Department of Family Medicine at Queen’s University from July 2017 until Oct 2023. He was the inaugural Clinical Teachers Association of Queen’s University Chair in Applied Health Economics/Health Policy from 2014-2017 and formerly served as Director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research and Interm Director of the Queen’s Health Services and Policy Research Institute.  In 2018 he was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.   He has served on many professional and government expert committees including the AMS Healthcare Board of Directors, the Provincial Primary Care Advisory Committee on COVID-19, the Ontario Premier’s Council Working Group on Primary Care, the Ontario Expert Panel on Wait Times in Primary Care, the Advisory Committee on Ontario’s Immunization System Review, the College of Family Physicians of Canada Indigenous Health Working Group and Patient’s Medical Home Steering Committees, the Diabetes Canada Guidelines working group on Diabetes and Indigenous people and for Health Quality Ontario the Primary Care Advisory Committee and the Quality Standards Working Group for Type 2 Diabetes. He completed his medical training at the University of British Columbia and his residency in Family Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Following eight years of active practice in Moose Factory, Ontario, including 4 years as Chief of Staff, he completed his MPH with a focus on Health Policy and Management at the John’s Hopkins School of Public Health. He moved to Queen’s University in 2003, where he has an active family practice at the Queen’s Family Health Team.  He also practiced in public health as a Medical Officer with Health Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch from 2003-2014. His research covers a broad range of health services and policy research areas with an emphasis on primary care, quality of care, equity in health, and Indigenous health. He has been supported by major grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Ontario Strategy on Patient Oriented Research Support Unit and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care with total research funding of over $40 million.  He has more than 100 publications and has made over 250 conference or academic presentations including many at major national and international primary care and health policy related conferences.

Dr. Green participated as a member of NCIME’s Improving cultural safety in curriculum working group in Phase I, one of his many contributions as a subject matter expert and joins the NCIME Board of Directors as Treasurer.