About Me
Galen grew up in Litchfield, Connecticut as the oldest of six children, the son of a chiropractor and school bus driver. Through his sister’s childhood battle with AML, he discovered Paul Newman’s The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children with serious illness and their families, an organization he has the pleasure to work and volunteer for over the past 15 years. That same period found Galen studying Psychology at Wheaton College in Illinois, providing creative programming for families in Boston hospitals, completing his medical studies at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, and finishing Pediatric Residency at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Galen is thrilled to be training in the vibrant, compassionate world of Pediatric Palliative Care, and hopes to explore how pediatricians can better meet the goals of these extraordinary families, particularly in the community apart from inpatient hospitalizations. His greatest accomplishments to date include keeping up with his remarkable family, convincing his wonderful fiancée to marry him and move across the country with their pup Poe, and memorizing all of the words of R.E.M’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” as a teenager (and still remembering ~2/3 of the words today).
