Dr. Peter Galier, an internal medicine specialist with the UCLA Medical Group in Santa Monica, has been re-elected chief of staff at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center for 2004.
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.
Dr. Galier’s goals for his second term include working with hospital management to implement national patient-safety goals, refining the performance-improvement process, and preparing for the next licensing and accreditation survey.
Joining him as officers on the hospital’s 2004 Executive Medical Board are Dr. David Baron, who was elected vice-chief of staff, and Dr. Chester Griffiths, who was elected secretary-treasurer. Dr. Baron is a family physician with the UCLA Medical Group in Malibu. Dr. Griffiths is an ear, nose and throat specialist based in West Los Angeles.
Other members of the physician board, which oversees medical affairs at Santa Monica-UCLA, are Drs. William Growdon, Jay Gross, Stephen Ross, Denise Sur, Bernard Weintraub and Dennis Woo.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 4, 2004. Read the original PDF.