Jack Green M.D.,of Chestnut Hill, a private practice psychiatrist for more than 40 years, died Tues April 10, 2007 at Youville Hospital in Cambridge. He was 83.
Born in Poland he moved to Montreal as a young boy. He received his medical degree from McGill Univ. in Montreal and did residency at Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. He swerved as chief of Intensive Treatment Service at the State Hospital for Mental Disease in Howard RI from 1949 -1953 and was Chief of the Neuropsychiatry Service for the U.S. Army Hospital at Camp Kilmer, NJ during the Korean War. He had received academic appointments to Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital, Dept. of Psychiatry, was director of the Alcoholism Clinic at Boston City Hospital, was appointed the Governor’s Advisory Committee for Families & Children and was medical director of Family Counseling and Guidance Centers of Greater Boston. He served as a consultant to Cambridge, Somerville, North Shore and Lynn branches of Catholic Charities of Greater Boston, and other assorted teaching and advisory positions, including being a consultant to the Brockton VA Hospital, the Metropolitan Tribunal for the Archdiocese of Boston and Cardinal O’Connell Seminary and St. John’s Seminary.
Husband of the late Rosemary T. (Craig) Green he is survived by his daughter and her husband Marsha and James Downing of Newton, his granddaughter Miranda Downing and his sister Mabel Applebee of West Palm Beach FL. He was the brother of the late Ann Greenstein.
Relatives and friends will gather at the Eaton & Mackay Funeral Home 465 Centre St. Newton Corner on Sat Apr. 14 at 8 AM and proceed to a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Ignatius of Loyola Church, Chestnut Hill at 9 AM. Interment will follow at St. Mary’s cemetery in Needham. Visiting hours will be in the funeral home on Fri from 5-8 PM.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) 5100 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Suite 400 Washington DC 20016-4131.