Our Team:
Integrative.
The Green Center was established on the foundation of a decade long collaboration between its co-directors, Rebecca Etz and Kurt Stange. We were privileged to receive founding sponsorship from the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation to continue to advance our work.
Rebecca S. Etz, PhD
Co-Director
Rebecca is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Family Medicine and Population Health at Virginia Commonwealth University with expertise in qualitative research methods and design, primary care measures, practice transformation, and engaging stakeholders. She has spent the last fifteen years dedicated to learning the heart and soul of primary care. Her career has been shaped by iterative research cycles that expose and reflect on the tacit norms and principles of primary care in which clinicians, thought leaders, and patients are equally invested.
Her work has three main lines of inquiry: 1) bridging the gap between the business of medicine and the lived experience of the human condition, 2) making visible the principles and mechanisms upon which the unique strength of primary care is based, and 3) exposing the unintended, often damaging consequences of policy and transformation efforts applied to primary care but not informed by primary care concepts.
Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD
Co-Director
Kurt is a family and public health physician at Case Western Reserve University. He is a Distinguished University Professor, Director of the Center for Community Health Integration (CHI), the Dorothy Jones Weatherhead Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Family Medicine & Community Health, Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, Oncology, and Sociology. He is also an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor and former editor for the Annals of Family Medicine.
He brings two and a half decades of experience conducting highly collaborative observational and intervention research at the intersections of primary care, public health, and community engagement with specific attention to highlighting the means through which primary care adds value, reduces illness-related burden, and improves health and well-being. He has many years of experience serving on national level committees, federal scientific review committees, and expert panels, including current service on the Board of OCHIN, which provides information technology support to primary care practices and community health centers in 23 states. Kurt has conducted dozens of empirical studies – both observational and experimental – designed to understand and improve primary health care.
As the Executive Director of the Center for Community Health Integration (CHI), James R. Bindas focuses on nurturing relationships and getting things done.
Erin Britton is a PhD in Healthcare Policy and Research. She is the quantitative analyst for the Quick COVID-19 Primary Care Survey.
Jacqueline B. Britz is a clinician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a Family Physician, and her interests include health equity, mental health, and the intersection of primary care and public health.
Martha Gonzalez is a Data Manager and Analyst at the Green Center and in the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health at VCU. She has more than a decade of experience structuring, organizing, and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data.
Robin Gotler is an administrator, writer, and editor in the Center for Community Health Integration, and Reflections Editor of the Annals of Family Medicine. Her background is in bioethics and history of medicine with a focus on family medicine and primary care.
Alison N. Huffstetler is a clinician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research interests include workforce development, women's health, and advancing primary care.
Harris Middleton is an Administrative Assistant with the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.
Linda Niebauer presently works with a small strategic communications team to keep a large group of folks connected through newsletters, monthly meetings, innovative lectures, the Precipice magazine and salons. She also is a member of the Eugene S. Farley, Jr. Health Policy Center team assisting with communication efforts. Most recently she joined the Larry A. Green Center folks to assist with a host of Colorado activities related to the primary care measures initiative and the Aurora Health Commons project.
Sarah Rohrs Reves is a Clinician Analyst at Virginia Commonwealth University and Deputy Director for the Larry A. Green Center. She is a Family Nurse Practitioner of over 20 years and has been the Copy Editor of BIOS, the journal of Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society, for almost 30 years.
Faculty
Larry A. Green is the Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and the Epperson-Zorn Chair for Innovation in Family Medicine and Primary Care at the University of Colorado.
David Meyers is a family physician and health services researcher who serves as the Chief Physician at the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Meyers is participating with the Green Center in his personal capacity. The views he expresses do not necessarily reflect those of AHRQ, the US Department of Health and Human Services, or the Federal government.
William L. Miller is a family physician, medical anthropologist, and Chair Emeritus at Lehigh Valley Health Network in the Lehigh River watershed of eastern Pennsylvania.
Stephen Zyzanski is a statistician and psychometrician at Case Western Reserve University serving as the department's methodological and statistical consultant in the planning and analysis of research studies.