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Ari J. Green, M.D.

Neurologist

Dr. Ari J. Green is assistant clinical director of the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Center and director of the UCSF Neurodiagnostics Center. He treats adults and children with MS and other inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system and has expertise in treating visual problems resulting from these conditions. In his research, he addresses how MS affects the visual system and methods to track and predict the course of the disease. He also uses advanced retinal imaging and electrophysiology to investigate the retina and optic nerve and the relationships between inflammation, demyelination and neurodegeneration in the disease and to better understand injury to nerve fibers of the brain in MS.

Green earned a medical degree at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., and completed an internal medicine internship in 2002 and neurology residency in 2005, both at UCSF. In 2005, he was chief resident at UCSF. He completed neuro-immunology and neuro-ophthalmology fellowships at UCSF and has won several awards including a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist Award and a clinician-scientist award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and American Academy of Neurology Foundation. Green is an assistant professor of neurology at UCSF.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

Multiple Sclerosis Center
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2069
Fax: (415) 353-2633

Hours: Monday to Friday
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

More about Ari J. Green

Education

Duke University Medical School 2001

Residencies

UCSF Medical Center, Neurology 2005

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Castillo-Trivino T, Mowry EM, Gajofatto A, Chabas D, Crabtree-Hartman E, Cree BA, Goodin DS, Green AJ, Okuda DT, Pelletier D, Zamvil SS, Vittinghoff E, Waubant E. Switching multiple sclerosis patients with breakthrough disease to second-line therapy. PLoS One. 2011; 6(2):e16664.
  2. Green AJ, McQuaid S, Hauser SL, Allen IV, Lyness R. Ocular pathology in multiple sclerosis: retinal atrophy and inflammation irrespective of disease duration. Brain. 2010 Jun; 133(Pt 6):1591-601.
  3. Baranzini SE, Wang J, Gibson RA, Galwey N, Naegelin Y, Barkhof F, Radue EW, Lindberg RL, Uitdehaag BM, Johnson MR, Angelakopoulou A, Hall L, Richardson JC, Prinjha RK, Gass A, Geurts JJ, Kragt J, Sombekke M, Vrenken H, Qualley P, Lincoln RR, Gomez R, Caillier SJ, George MF, Mousavi H, Guerrero R, Okuda DT, Cree BA, Green AJ, Waubant E, Goodin DS, Pelletier D, Matthews PM, Hauser SL, Kappos L, Polman CH, Oksenberg JR. Genome-wide association analysis of susceptibility and clinical phenotype in multiple sclerosis. Hum Mol Genet. 2009 Feb 15; 18(4):767-78.
  4. Chabas D, Green AJ, Waubant E. Pediatric multiple sclerosis. NeuroRx. 2006 Apr; 3(2):264-75.
  5. Langer-Gould A, Atlas SW, Green AJ, Bollen AW, Pelletier D. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in a patient treated with natalizumab. N Engl J Med. 2005 Jul 28; 353(4):375-81.

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