News & Events: Courtney Green, M.D.

Courtney Green, MD, a general surgery resident at UCSF, received the 2019 American College of Surgeons (ACS) Resident Award for Exemplary Teaching at the ACS Clinical Congress Annual Business Meeting of Members on October 30th.   The prestigious award was in recognition for Dr. Green's excellence in teaching and her outstanding committment to surgical education.The award is sponsored by the Division of Education and the winners are selected by an independent review panel of the Committee on Resident Education.  Dr. Green was presented the award by Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS, President of the [...]

Faculty members Mary McGrath, M.D. and Carter Lebares, M.D., and general surgery resident Courtney Green, M.D.,MAEd each received the UCSF Excellence and Innovation Award in Graduate Medical Education (2018-19) at the end-of-year GME Celebration on June 17th at the Kalmanovitz Library on the UCSF Parnassus Heights campus.  Award recipients have demonstrated a commitment to advancing graduate medical education at UCSF through educational and clinical quality improvement, service excellence, and innovation, and have demonstrated excellence in:  Educational leadership in his/her department, [...]

UCSF general surgery research fellow Courtney A. Green, M.D. was recently interviewed by Daniel Seeger of Surgical Products Magazine about changes in the surgical instruction model heralded by the advent of robotic surgery in the operating room.  It's well understood that robotic-assisted surgical systems are transforming the work that happens in the operating room. But does the increasing prominence of the devices in the healthcare field also require a transformation in how surgical instruction takes place? Courtney Green, MD, a research fellow in the general surgery program at the [...]

Courtney A. Green, M.D., research fellow in the General Surgery Residency program, has been awarded a CSERT (Center for Excellence in Surgical Education, Research and Training) grant from the Association for Surgical Education (ASE) Foundation. Her research project is entitled, "Investigation into the Perceptual Expertise of a Robotic Surgeon: How do we learn to feel what we see?" Surgical education grants are among the most difficult to obtain. Moreover, this grant has historically been awarded to faculty affiliated with academic institutions, underscoring Dr. Green's achievement here as a [...]

Second-year General and Plastic Surgery residents (pictured left to right) Jeremy Sharib, M.D., Kelly Mahuron, M.D., Rachel Lentz, M.D., Nicole Conkling, M.D., Yeranui Ledesma, M.D., Anamaria Robles, M.D., Evan Werlin, M.D., Jarrett Moyer, M.D., Courtney Green, M.D., Daniel Balkin, M.D, Ph.D, and Hubert Luu, M.D. were the recipients of surgical loupes at the annual "Historical Perspectives" from the Department of Surgery Grand Rounds. A set of loupes was gifted to each resident in honor of a distinguished alumnus of the UCSF Surgery Residency training program, many of whom were present at the [...]