Ari Green MD

Dr. Ari J Green, MD

Medical Director

UCSF MS and Neuroinflammation Center

Dr. Ari J. Green is medical director of the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Center and director of the UCSF Neurodiagnostics Center. He treats adults and children with MS and other inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system and has expertise in treating visual problems resulting from these conditions.

In his research, he addresses how MS affects the visual system and methods to track and predict the course of the disease. He also uses advanced retinal imaging and electrophysiology to investigate the retina and optic nerve and the relationships between inflammation, demyelination and neurodegeneration in the disease and to better understand injury to nerve fibers of the brain in MS.

Dr. Green earned a medical degree at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., and completed an internal medicine internship in 2002 and neurology residency in 2005, both at UCSF. He completed neuro-immunology and neuro-ophthalmology fellowships at UCSF and has won several awards including a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist Award and a clinician-scientist award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and American Academy of Neurology Foundation.