Benjamin T. Galen, M.D.

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 a teaching attending in Hospital Medicine

Dr. Galen is an Associate Program Director in The Einstein/Montefiore Internal Medicine Residency Program, the Director of Firm 3 and the Director of ultrasound and procedure training.  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 and paracentesis.  Dr. Galen has taught in the EPHEM, Microbiology, and PDC classes at Einstein.  He has led translational research on recurrent meningitis, collaborting with members of Betsy Herold's laboratory. He has co-authored over 20 original research studies.  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.  

Dr. Galen is the editor-in-chief of POCUS Journal (https://pocusjournal.com/), the world's leading peer-reviewed, open-access publication for point-of-care ultrasound.  He teaches POCUS nationally at a variety of workshops and conferences. 

1. Shankar, N., Kuo, L., Krugliak Cleveland, N., Galen, B., Samel, N. S., Perez-Sanchez, A., Nathanson, R., Coss, E., Echavarria, J., Rubin, D. T., & Soni, N. J. (2025). Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2024.09.040
2. Cool, J. A., Galen, B. T., & Dancel, R. (2025). Point-counterpoint: Should hospitalists perform their own bedside procedures? J Hosp Med, 20(1), 89-93. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13545
3. Schechter, M. S., Baron, S. W., Gohari, A., Southern, W. N., & Galen, B. T. (2024). Midline Catheter-Associated Thrombosis (MCAT): Does Tip Location in the Axillary Vein Increase Risk? J Infus Nurs, 47(6), 363-368. https://doi.org/10.1097/nan.0000000000000558
4. Singh, J., Oliver-Krasinski, J., Tauras, J., & Galen, B. T. (2023). Systemic Amyloidosis: Is It ATTR or AL? Am J Med, 136(7), 652-654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.03.009
5. Johri, A. M., Glass, C., Hill, B., Jensen, T., Puentes, W., Olusanya, O., Capizzano, J. N., Dancel, R., Reierson, K., Reisinger, N., Liblik, K., & Galen, B. T. (2023). The Evolution of Cardiovascular Ultrasound: A Review of Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Across Specialties. Am J Med, 136(7), 621-628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.02.020
6. Eman, G., Synn, S., Galen, B., Shah, R., Nauka, P., Hope, A. A., Congdon, S., & Islam, M. (2023). Thoracic Ultrasound in COVID-19: Use of Lung and Diaphragm Ultrasound in Evaluating Dyspnea in Survivors of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome from COVID-19 Pneumonia in a Post-ICU Clinic. Lung, 201(2), 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-023-00614-w
7. Nauka, P. C., LeFrancois, D., & Galen, B. T. (2022). An Introductory Curriculum for Internal Medicine Interns in Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Detect Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis. Pocus j, 7(2), 185-186. https://doi.org/10.24908/pocus.v7i2.15937
8. Varrias, D., Palaiodimos, L., Balasubramanian, P., Barrera, C. A., Nauka, P., Melainis, A. A., Zamora, C., Zavras, P., Napolitano, M., Gulani, P., Ntaios, G., Faillace, R. T., & Galen, B. (2021). The Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in the Diagnosis of Deep Vein Thrombosis. J Clin Med, 10(17). https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10173903
9. Shah, R., Zhang, L., & Galen, B. T. (2021). A 73-Year-Old Woman With Pulseless Electrical Activity Arrest. Chest, 160(6), e665-e667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2021.03.075
10. Koleilat, I., Galen, B., Choinski, K., Hatch, A. N., Jones, D. B., Billett, H., Indes, J., & Lipsitz, E. (2021). Clinical characteristics of acute lower extremity deep venous thrombosis diagnosed by duplex in patients hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019. J Vasc Surg Venous Lymphat Disord, 9(1), 36-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvsv.2020.06.012
11. Nauka, P. C., & Galen, B. T. (2020). The Focused Assessment with Sonography in Cancer (FASC) Examination. Pocus j, 5(2), 42-45. https://doi.org/10.24908/pocus.v5i2.14428
12. Merkin, R., Kruger, A., Bhardwaj, G., Kajita, G. R., Shapiro, L., & Galen, B. T. (2020). Internal Medicine Resident Work Absence During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Large Academic Medical Center in New York City. J Grad Med Educ, 12(6), 682-685. https://doi.org/10.4300/jgme-d-20-00657.1