Linda V. Green, PhD, a member of both the Lehigh Valley Health Network Board of Trustees and Lehigh Valley Hospital Board of Directors, is the Cain Brothers and Company Professor Emerita of Healthcare Management at Columbia Business School. She worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T before joining the faculty of Columbia. She was instrumental in the development of the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program at the Business School, serving as its Faculty Director. She held several other administrative positions including Senior Vice Dean.

Ms. Green’s research, which has focused on the development and application of queueing and other mathematical models to improve service systems, has resulted in dozens of publications in premier technical journals such as Operations Research and Management Science as well as prominent health care journals such as Health Affairs, Health Services Research, Inquiry and Academic Emergency Medicine. Her work over the past 30 years has focused on providing policy insights and operational methodologies to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of health care delivery systems. Specific projects have included reducing delays for emergency care, providing timely access to primary care, the development of new nurse staffing methodologies and the evaluation of physician and hospital bed capacity needs.

Ms. Green has been a consultant and advisor to numerous health systems, physician practices, health start-ups, and government agencies. Her work on prioritizing burn victims during a catastrophic event earned a best paper award from the INFORMS Section for Public Programs, Services and Needs and became a model for burn protocols across the country.

Her work has been featured in various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Business Week, Slate and Crain’s New York. Ms. Green has held editorial positions for Operations Research and Management Science, including serving as the Department Editor for Stochastic Models for Management Science for more than 12 years. She is a Fellow of INFORMS and MSOM.

Ms. Green earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from The City College of New York (CCNY), a Master of Science in Mathematics from the Courant Institute at NYU, and a PhD in Operations Research from Yale University.

Ms. Green lives in New York City with her husband, Stanley. They have one son, Daniel