Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, is associate professor and Elizabeth Treide A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine, at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Before joining Johns Hopkins University he was assistant professor at the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, where he also served as an instructor in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Harvard Medical School, and associate physician in the Department of Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. His research interests focus on the history of the pharmaceutical industry and its interactions with medical research, clinical practice, and public health. His first book, Prescribing By Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease (2007, Johns Hopkins University Press) traces the development of chronic disease categories as markets for risk-reducing pharmaceuticals.

Currently he is working on a history of generic drugs. Generic drugs are never fully identical to the brand name products they imitate. Rather, their claims to being ‘the same’ lies in proof that they are similar enough in ways that matter to be functionally interchangeable. Professor Greene received a Medical degree and Doctor of Philosophy in the History of Science from Harvard in 2005. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in 2008. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and a member of the American College of Physicians. In addition to his appointment at the Institute for the History of Medicine, he practices internal medicine at the East Baltimore Medical Center with admitting privileges to the Johns Hopkins University Hospital.