Dr. Michael Green is a non-Indigenous family physician. He is a primary care researcher, leads the Ontario INSPIRE PHC Program, and is Senior Adjunct Scientist of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. He is the current president of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He is recognized as a national leader in both Indigenous Health and Primary Care, serving on many professional and government expert committees and participating in the authorship of guidelines and expert reports in both areas as the Brian Hennen Chair, Head of the Department of Family Medicine and a Professor of Family Medicine, Public Health Sciences and Policy Studies at Queen’s University.

He is a Senior Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). In 2018 he was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and he has served on many professional and government expert committees including 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 Committee, and Health Quality Ontario’s Primary Care Advisory Committee.

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 and has been supported by major grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Ontario Strategy on Patient Oriented Research Support Unit and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. He has published and presented widely on his work in journals such as CMAJ, Health Policy and the Annals of Family Medicine, and at major national and international primary care and health policy related conferences.