Assistant Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Dr. Gary Green is assistant professor and chief workforce development officer for the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and chief workforce development officer for the RegenMed Development Organization. His academic interests include education and workforce development for regenerative medicine and related convergent technologies. Prior to joining WFIRM, Green was president of Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, NC, a regional and national leader in biotechnology education. The National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce was established there under his leadership and he hosted visits to the College’s biotechnology program by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He has presented on bioscience workforce development regionally, nationally, and internationally, including White House, Department of Labor, US-EU, APEC, and US-Canada workforce conferences. Green has appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, and NPR addressing education and workforce development issues. He is an affiliate graduate faculty member at the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at North Carolina State University and is co-chair of the National Industry Advisory and Leadership Council of InnovATEBio: The National Biotechnology Education Center. He also serves on the advisory board of the National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce and the board of directors of Higher Ed Works, a North Carolina educational advocacy organization. Green received his BA, MA and EdD degrees from the University of Kentucky.