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A Marquis Who's Who Magazine 159 D r. Jerry G. Greene was a clinical associate professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine prior to retiring in 2000. Throughout his career, he has held leadership roles in respiratory and cardiac health, serving as chief of pulmonary disease at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota; chief of the department of medicine at Saranac Lake General Hospital; medical director at the Will Rogers Hospital; chief of pulmonary disease at the St. Paul Ramsey Hospital; and an associate of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at St. Mary’s Hospital. Dr. Greene has also been a consultant for various organizations since 1980, including the National Institutes of Health and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Before briefly serving as an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, he was an assistant in pulmonary diseases at the Mayo Clinic and an internal medicine practitioner in St. Paul, Minnesota. He also served on the board of directors of the North Dakota Lung Association. However, the highlight of his career was teaching as a professor at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, where he helped to build a four-year medical school and develop a pulmonary curriculum. Following his tenure in North Dakota, he became a chief of staff of the Castle Point VA Hospital and then the medical director of Network 2, including Albany, Syracuse, Canandaigua and Buffalo veterans hospitals. A native of Canada, Dr. Greene earned an MD from the University of Manitoba and completed a rotating internship and residency in medicine at St. Boniface Hospital. While completing his residency, he was a teaching fellow at the University of Manitoba and then immigrated to the United States, where was a fellow in medicine at the Mayo Clinic. After gaining additional experience, he earned an MS in preventative medicine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In recognition of his contributions to the health care industry, Dr. Greene received the Recognition Award from the Mayo Clinical Fellows Association, a Bush Fellowship for Academic Medicine, and a Pulmonary Academy Award from the National Institutes of Health. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. JERRY G. GREENE, MD PHYSICIAN (RETIRED) Mount Sinai School of Medicine Albany, NY