Sports Medicine - 2026

Dr. Gary Green has served as Medical Director for Major League Baseball since 2010 and has been affiliated with Major League Baseball since 2003 as a consultant on anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs. He also is currently Research Director for the League. In these roles, he has been instrumental in several rule changes to Major League Baseball that have improved the health and safety of players. He recently was recognized by Major League Baseball with its 2024 Frank W. Jobe, MD Lectureship award.

Dr. Green has been a team physician for collegiate athletes for the past 38 years and has served as head team physician for Pepperdine University since 1997, after previously serving in a similar capacity at UCLA from 1988-1997. He has been the Medical Director for the World Baseball Classic since 2013, and has worked with Team Israel. He is the former chairman of the NCAA Committee on Drug Testing and Drug Education from 1996-2002 and was drug testing chair at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. He has published numerous research articles on a variety of subjects that include sports-related concussion, baseball injuries and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in athletes.

Dr. Green attended University of Pennsylvania and then did an internship and residency at the Medical College of Pennsylvania before moving to Southern California. He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Sports Medicine and is a Clinical Professor in the UCLA Division of Sports Medicine. He is a charter member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. Dr. Green combines primary care and sports medicine in his clinical practice located in Santa Monica, CA and feels that all patients are athletes. He is married to Dr. Debra Yerman, DC and they share 4 adult children and 2 dogs.