By Daily Press staff
For the third consecutive year, Santa Monica family physician Dr. Stephen Ross has been elected chief of staff at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.
A Santa Monica resident, Dr. Ross is a 1980 graduate of the hospital’s nationally known Family Practice Residency Program. He currently practices with the UCLA Medical Group in Santa Monica, which he joined in 1997. Other officers on the hospital’s 2002 executive medical board are Dr. Peter Galier, who was elected vice-chief of staff, and Dr. David Baron, who was elected secretary-treasurer after being appointed last year.
Dr. Galier is an internal medical specialist with the UCLA Medical Group in Santa Monica. Dr. Baron, a former family practice resident at the hospital, is a family physician with the UCLA Medical Group in Malibu.
Other members of the board, which oversees medical affairs at Santa Monica-UCLA, are incumbents Dr. William Growdon, Dr. Michael Herbst and Dr. Bernard Weintraub, and newcomers Dr. Dennis Woo, Dr. Chester Griffiths and Dr. Edward Livingston.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 15, 2002. Read the original PDF.