Benjamin T. Galen MD, FACP

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 core faculty in The Einstein/Montefiore Internal Medicine Residency Program. In 2015 Dr. Galen received the Sharon R. Silbiger Faculty Teaching Award from the Einstein residents. He has led over 50 resident teaching conferences in his short time at Einstein and worked to formalize curricula for bedside procedures such as lumbar puncture (LP). Dr. Galen is passionate about medical case reports and he has mentored residents and former residents in the process of publishing cases in a variety of venues. He has published over 20 articles in peer reviewed journals as well as an intern survival guide.