Additional Positions
- Associate Chief of Research, Division of General Internal Medicine
- Co-Director, Center for Research on Health Care
- Director, PhD Program in Clinical and Translational Science
- Professor of Psychiatry
- Professor of Clinical & Translational Science
Meet Dr. Galen Switzer
Dr. Switzer is the Director of the PhD Program in Clinical and Translational Science and teaches graduate students through the Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE). He has extensive training and experience in qualitative and quantitative measurement and the administration of survey-based investigations. Dr. Switzer has trained and mentored many junior investigators in quantitative and qualitative methods and instructs a core ICRE course focused on Measurement in Clinical Research for the Certificate, MS, and PhD programs in clinical and translational science.
Dr. Switzer is an expert regarding the motives and experiences of individuals who join an adult stem-cell donation registry and volunteer to donate to a stranger. In collaboration with the US-based National Marrow Donor Program, UK-based Anthony Nolan Registry, and German-based DKMS, his research group has become internationally known for its findings about registry members' experience at critical points leading to donation, as well as motivations for joining the registry and factors associated with opting-out after having preliminarily matched a patient in need of a transplant. Dr. Switzer has also investigated the donation experience from the donor perspective. Finally, for more than 20 years, he has developed and evaluated clinical and psychosocial research measures and compiled validated measures for research projects across multiple contexts.
Borrero, S., Judge-Golden, C., Dehlendorf, C., Callegari, L.S., Hamm, M.E., Cameron, F.A., Switzer, G.E., Wulf, S. and Mosley, E.A. (2026), Moving Beyond Unintended Pregnancy: Development of a Person-Centered Conceptual Framework and Measure of Self-Assessed Pregnancy Acceptability. Studies in Family Planning, 57: 5-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.70044
Switzer, G. E., Bruce, J. G., Kiefer, D. M., Kobusingye, H., Abebe, K. Z., Drexler, R., Besser, R. M., Confer, D. L., Horowitz, M. M., King, R. J., Shaw, B. E., Riches, M., Hayes-Lattin, B., Linenberger, M., Bolwell, B., Rowley, S. D., Litzow, M. R., & Pulsipher, M. A. (2020). Health-related quality-of-life comparison of adult related and unrelated hsc donors: An rdsafe study. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 26(12), 2365–2371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbmt.2020.08.016
Wiener, L., Hoag, J. A., Pelletier, W., Shah, N. N., Shaw, B. E., Pulsipher, M. A., Bruce, J., Bader, P., Willasch, A. M., Dalissier, A., Guilcher, G., Anthias, C., Confer, D. L., Sees, J. A., Logan, B., & Switzer, G. E. (2019). Transplant center practices for psychosocial assessment and management of pediatric hematopoietic stem cell donors. Bone Marrow Transplantation, 54(11), 1780–1788. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-019-0515-3