By Daily Press staff
For the third consecutive year, Dr. Peter Galier has been elected chief of staff at the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.
Dr. Galier is an internal medicine specialist with the UCLA medical group in Santa Monica. 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.
Among Dr. Galier’s immediate goals for this term is working with hospital management and staff physicians to prepare for Santa Monica-UCLA’s upcoming licensing and accreditation survey, expected to occur by summer.
Joining him as officers on the hospital’s 2005 executive medical board are Dr. David Baron and Dr. Chester Griffiths, who were re-elected vice-chief of staff and secretary-treasurer, respectively. Dr. Baron is a family medicine physician 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. Denise Freese, Jay Gross, William Growdon, Denise Sur, Bernard Weintraub and Dennis Woo. Wanted: Woman to speak on women’s behalf
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 12, 2005. Read the original PDF.