By Daily Press staff
Dr. Peter Galier, an internal medicine specialist with the UCLA Medical Group in Santa Monica, has been elected chief of staff at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center for 2003. He had served as vice-chief of staff for the past two years.
A Pacific Palisades resident, Dr. Galier has been with the UCLA Medical Group since 1994. He completed both his medical-school training and residency at UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, where he also served as chief resident. He earned his undergraduate degree from Loyola Marymount University.
Joining him as officers on the hospital’s 2003 Executive Medical Board are Dr. Michael Herbst, who was elected vice-chief of staff, and Dr. David Baron, who was re-elected secretary-treasurer. Both are family physicians practicing in Santa Monica and Malibu, respectively.
Other members of the physician board, which oversees medical affairs at Santa Monica-UCLA, are Drs. William Growdon, Chester Griffiths, Stephen Ross, Bernard Weintraub and Dennis Woo.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 15, 2003. Read the original PDF.