Jonathan M. Green, MD MBA, is Director, Office of Human Subjects Research Protections for the National Institutes of Health. Prior to joining the NIH, Dr. Green was Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Immunology, as well as Associate Dean for Human Studies, and Executive Chair of the institutional review board at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. He received his medical degree from Wayne State University in Detroit followed by residency training in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital. He then completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center, and additional post-doctoral training at the University of Chicago. He received an MBA from Washington University Olin School of Business in 2017. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases, and critical care medicine. Dr. Green continues to serve as an attending physician in the Medical Intensive Care Unit and Pulmonary Consult Service at the NIH Clinical Center and has conducted both basic science and clinical research on the regulation of the immune response.

Dr. Green has had a long standing interest in biomedical ethics. He had been a member of the Barnes Jewish Hospital Ethics Committee since 2000, leading the clinical ethics consultation service from 2001-2005 and serving as Chair of the Ethics Committee from 2005-2009. After joining the Washington University Institutional Review Board in 2008, he assumed the role of committee co-chair in 2009. In 2010, he was appointed Associate Dean of Human Studies and Executive Chair of the IRB at Washington University in St Louis. Dr. Green served on the Secretaries Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) from 2015-2018, also serving on the Subpart A subcommittee.

Dr. Green has had a personal interest in delivering health care to underserved and resource limited settings. For many years he volunteered at the Community Health and Partnership Clinic, a free medical clinic providing primary care services in St Louis, MO. He participated in the Pacific Partnership with Project Hope in 2008, spending 6 weeks on the USNS Mercy in Southeast Asia. In 2014 he worked with Partners in Health in Liberia for 6 weeks during the Ebola crisis. In 2020 he volunteered with Project Hope to provide medical care to COVID patients on the Navajo Nation. Dr. Green has been involved with Ayder Comprehensive Specialty Hospital in Mekelle, Ethiopia for many years. With the support of the worldwide Fistula Fund he, along with other physicians, has worked at Ayder to increase their capacity to care for critically ill patients and to provide critical care education and training to the staff.