Nicholas M. Greene, M.D.

On June 26, the School of Medicine announced the completion of a fund-raising effort that will establish the first endowed professorship in the Department of Anesthesiology and will honor Nicholas M. Greene, M.D., Yale’s first professor of anesthesiology and founding chair of the department. A graduate of Yale College, Greene received his medical degree from Columbia University in 1946. He had an enormous influence on medicine at Yale and around the world, and is credited with transforming the anesthesia service at Yale from a technical subspecialty of surgery into its own medical and academic discipline. In addition, an anonymous donor has established the Betty Greene Research Fund in Anesthesiology for use at the discretion of the incumbent of the Greene Chair.