Center for Digital Health

Galen Hu graduated from Brown University concentrating in Biology (Neurobiology). He competes on Brown’s NCAA Division I Men’s Water Polo team and aspires to be a physician. Galen is immensely interested in the concept of Digital Health and the potential of its many applications in the clinical setting. He was drawn to Brown eDHI after his internship at Alcon/Novartis, a medical devices company specializing in eye-care, where he was a member of the team that launched Alcon’s SMART Suite Digital Health Platform. His previous research experience took place at UT Southwestern, where he worked as a research assistant in Brown & Goldstein’s lab, focusing on lipid metabolism. At eDHI, Galen is pursuing a Senior Honor’s Thesis analyzing adolescent violence exposure in conjunction with his work on iDOVE2.