Montefiore Einstein Department of Medicine

Department Faculty

Benjamin T. Galen, M.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Hospital Medicine)

Areas of Research: Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) for Quality Improvement and Medical Education. I also study recurrent meningitis due to Herpes Simplex Virus.

Professional Interests

Dr. Galen graduated from Brown University with honors in the biological sciences and earned an M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at Yale University where he was elected to the Gold Humanism Honor Society and was the class speaker at residency graduation. He joined Montefiore and Einstein in 2013 as an inpatient teaching attending.

Dr. Galen is currently the Director of Ultrasound and Procedure training as well as Assistant Director of Firm 3 and Associate Program Director in The Montefiore Einstein Internal Medicine Residency Program. In 2015 Dr. Galen received the Sharon R. Silbiger Faculty Teaching Award from the Einstein residents. He has led hundreds of resident teaching conferences and has worked to formalize curricula for point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and bedside procedures, such as lumbar puncture (LP). Dr. Galen has taught in the EPHEM, Microbiology, and PDC classes at Einstein. He is fortunate to have the opportunity to do translational research on recurrent meningitis, collaborting with members of Betsy Herold's laboratory. Dr. Galen is passionate about medical case reports and he has mentored residents and junior faculty in the process of publishing cases in a variety of venues. He has published over 30 articles in peer reviewed journals as well as an intern survival guide.

Selected Publications

Selected

Original Research:

Galen B, Conigliaro R. A Curriculum for Lumbar Puncture Training in Internal Medicine Residency. MedEdPublish, 2019. 8, [1], 33, https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2019.000033.1

Galen BT, Baron S, Young S, Hall A, Spivack LB, Southern WN. Reducing Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters and Midline Catheters by Training Nurses in Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Placement. BMJ Quality & Safety. 2019 Oct 3.

Koleilat I, Galen B, Choinski K, Hatch AN, Jones DB, Billett H, Indes J, Lipsitz E. Clinical Characteristics of Acute Lower Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis Diagnosed by Duplex in Patients Hospitalized for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders (2020), published online June 25th, 2020.

Case Reports:

Advani R and Galen BT. Giant left atrium encountered during right-sided thoracentesis. Respiratory Medicine Case Reports. 2017 Nov 11;23:21-22

Gluck L, Robbins M, and Galen BT. Mollaret Cells in Recurrent Benign Lymphocytic Meningitis. The Neurohospitalist. 2017. 2018 Jan

Mittal J, Szymczak W, Pirofski L, and Galen BT. Fungemia due to Aureobasidium pullulansin a Patient with Advanced AIDS: A Case Report and Review of the Medical Literature. JMM Case Reports. 2018 Mar 14;5(4):e005144

Nayi V, Wang Y, Galen B. When Appearance Is Everything: Chylous Ascites. Am J Med. 2018

Quach C, Galen BT. HLA-B*5801 Testing to Prevent Allopurinol Hypersensitivity Syndrome: A Teachable Moment. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Sep 1; 178(9):1260-1261

Schultz E, Swartz K, Galen BT. A 69-Year-Old Man With Syncope. Chest. 2021 Jun;159(6):e421-e423. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.04.076.

Review Articles:

Galen BT, Sankey C. Sepsis: an update in management. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2015 Nov;10(11):746-52

Rosenberg J, Galen BT. Recurrent Meningitis. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2017 Jul;21(7):33.

Johri AM, Galen B, Kirkpatrick J, Lanspa M, Mulvagh S, Thamman R. ASE Statement on Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) During the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Pandemic. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, Vol. 33, Issue 6, 670–673. Published online: April 15, 2020

Mathews BK, Koenig S, Kurian L, Galen B, Mints G, Liu G, Soni N. Clinical Progress Note: Point-of-Care Ultrasound Applications in COVID-19. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2020 Jun;15(6):353-355

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