Bonnie L. Green

Bonnie L. Green is a psychiatrist known for her research of trauma-related mental health needs of female primary care patients from lower-income households. She served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Traumatic Stress from 1993^[1] until 1997.^[2] She was president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies from 2000 to 2001.^[3]

Green received the 2012 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association, Division 56 (Trauma Psychology).^[4]

From 1970 to 1990, Green taught at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center as a professor of Psychiatry. Following that, from 1987 to 2006, she was a professor at the University of Cincinnati. Until 2015, Green was a professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Psychiatry and founding associate dean for Faculty Development for Georgetown University Medical School.^[5]

Following that, she was the director of the Georgetown Center for Trauma and the Community; within her time in this position, she aided in the development of intervention methods of trauma related needs within lower-income communities.

She holds the position of Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University Medical School.

Green's research has addressed trauma-related issues in multiple situations. In the years following the Buffalo Creek flood, Green examined the mental health of people in the twenty years following the flood.^[6] Following the Oklahoma City bombing, Green talked about the impact of the event on the mental health of survivors.^[7] She also provided training for medical professionals to enable them to work successfully with trauma patients.^[8] Green is also known for her work identifying symptoms of psychiatric issues within people with early-stage breast cancer,^[9] and for her work examining the effectiveness of intervention for low-income and minority women with depression. The results of the study note that medication and psychotherapy interventions caused a reduction in symptoms of depression.^[10]

• Green, B. L., Goodman, L. A., Krupnick, J. L., Corcoran, C. B., Petty, R. M., Stockton, P., & Stern, N. M. (2000). Outcomes of single versus multiple trauma exposure in a screening sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 13, 271-286.
• Green, B. L., Grace, M. C., Vary, M. G., Kramer, T. L., Gleser, G. C., & Leonard, A. C. (1994). Children of disaster in the second decade: A 17-year follow-up of Buffalo Creek survivors. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 33(1), 71-79.
• Green, B. L., Korol, M., Grace, M. C., Vary, M. G., Leonard, A. C., Gleser, G. C., & Smitson-Cohen, S. (1991). Children and disaster: Age, gender, and parental effects on PTSD symptoms. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 30(6), 945-951.
• Green, B. L., Lindy, J. D., Grace, M. C., & Leonard, A. C. (1992). Chronic posttraumatic stress disorder and diagnostic comorbidity in a disaster sample. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 180(12), 760-766.
• Green, B. L., Rowland, J. H., Krupnick, J. L., Epstein, S. A., Stockton, P., Stern, N. M., ... & Steakley, C. (1998). Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder in women with breast cancer. Psychosomatics, 39(2), 102-111.