Ronald L. Green, MD

Ron Green, M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist and an expert in pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy and neuropsychiatry. He is a Professor of Psychiatry, Active Emeritus, at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and a longtime member of its faculty. 

Dr. Green is a graduate of the University of Vermont College of Medicine, did his residency in psychiatry at Dartmouth then served as a psychiatrist in the U.S. Navy for two years. He has been at Dartmouth since then, first for 13 years, as Director of the Psychiatry Consultation/ Liaison Service at the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont, following which, for 25 years, he was the Residency Program Director in Psychiatry at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Since 2009 he has been a staff psychiatrist at Hanover Psychiatry. 

In Ron’s long career, he has authored many scholarly works and his professional reach has gone far beyond the environs of Dartmouth. One example is his text, co-authored with Dr. Robyn Ostrander, and published in 2009 by WW Norton, “Neuroanatomy for Students of Behavioral Disorders”. As well he has garnered many local, regional and national teaching awards, including the 2013 American Psychiatric Association’s annual “Irma Bland Excellence in Residency Teaching Award” and the New Hampshire Psychiatric Society’s 2016 Leadership Award in the Service of the Mentally Ill. On the light side, Dr. Green for six years was medical consultant to HBO’s “The Sopranos”. He prescribed Tony Soprano’s medication (for the show’s script and not for Mr. Gandolfini of course) and helped design psychotherapy scenes between Mr. Soprano and Dr. Melfi. 

Dr. Green is known as a doctor’s doctor. His stature, experience and guidance graces not just Hanover Psychiatry but the entire department of psychiatry at Dartmouth.