Dr. Shawn Galin, Associate Professor of Medicine, is the Director of the Office of Standardized Patient Education (OSPE) at UAB. Dr. Galin completed his undergraduate studies in Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham earning a BS in 1988. He then entered the MS graduate program in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed his MS degree in 1990. He continued his graduate studies in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and was awarded his PhD in 1994. He remained to continue his Post-Doctoral training and became a faculty member in 1996. Dr. Galin became a faculty member in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care in October, 2009. He entered his current position as Director of OSPE in 2015.