Sharone Green, MD

Sharone Green, MD

Sharone Green, MD, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Green's laboratory is part of the medical school's Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, where she studies the body’s response to viral infections, specifically dengue virus, West Nile virus, and Japanese encephalitis virus. The goal of the research is to determine why some people become quite ill with these viruses while others don't; this research will assist in the development of vaccines for these and related viruses.

Green is a nationally recognized expert on West Nile, dengue, and related viruses. Under her leadership, researchers at University of Massachusetts Medical School launched a major initiative in 2002 to investigate the disease process of West Nile virus, seeking clues as to why the virus causes serious illness and death in some people, while in others it manifests itself with simple flu-like symptoms. The findings of her work may lead to targeted treatment and prevention of the disease. Green’s West Nile project is part of two nationally funded Emerging Disease Centers from the National Institutes of Health. The grant was given to the New York State Department of Public Health and University of Massachusetts Medical School, which will combine their respective expertise in search of a treatment and vaccine for West Nile.

Green earned her undergraduate degree at Queens College in 1983 and her medical degree in 1986 at Eastern Virginia Medical School. She did her post-graduate training in internal medicine at the Washington Hospital Center, and then came to the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 1989 for further study in infectious diseases.

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