Director Emeritus and Fellow
The John B. Pierce Laboratory
Professor of Surgery (Otolaryngology)
Yale School of Medicine
Laboratory:
Oral & Cutaneous Sensitivity
Telephone: (203) 562-9901,
EXT. 200
Education
AB, University of California, Riverside, 1971
PhD, Indiana University, 1975
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Green has been a Fellow of the John B. Pierce Laboratory since 1996 and served as its Director from 2009 through 2016. He first came to the laboratory in 1975 as a postdoctoral fellow in the psychology group, working on topics in tactile and thermal psychophysics. He continued his postdoctoral work on tactile psychophysics at Princeton University before moving to Indiana University in 1980 to conduct a research project on the communication of speech information through the skin. In 1983 Dr. Green took a faculty position at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, PA. While at Monell Dr. Green developed a research program on sensory interactions between chemical irritants and the senses of taste, temperature, and pain which led to the concept of chemesthesis. After returning to the Pierce Laboratory, Dr. Green continued his work on chemesthesis while developing a new program on spatial and temporal factors that affect the sensitivity to temperature and pain. Research in his laboratory now focuses on studies of human taste, flavor, and chemesthesis and the relation of these sensitivities both to current theories of sensory mechanisms and to their roles in driving the consumption of foods and tobacco products (e.g. e-cigarettes).
