John R. Pfeifer Professor of Surgery
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dr. Katherine Ann Gallagher is Professor of Surgery, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and the John R. Pfeifer Collegiate Professor of Surgery. Dr. Gallagher graduated with highest honors from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Physiology and Neurobiology in 1998. During this time, she was a Howard Hughes Fellow at the NIH studying embryonic hair cell regeneration. She graduated with honors (cum laude) and AOA from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2002. She did her General Surgery Residency at the University of Maryland from 2002-2009. Concurrently, she pursued Vascular Biology Post-Doctoral T32 Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gallagher completed her Vascular Surgery Fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical Center/Columbia University Medical Center in 2011.
Since joining the faculty at the University of Michigan, Dr. Gallagher’s research has focused on vascular inflammation and the intercept between epigenetics and peripheral macrophage phenotypes in wound repair and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Gallagher is an NIH-funded researcher with additional funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Wylie Scholars, AHA and the ACS. She is a standing member and chair on the BTSS NIH-study section and is a founding member of the NIH-NIDDK Wound Consortium. Numerous awards include include the American Heart Association’s ATVB Investigator of the Year (2019), member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), American Surgical Association, Distinguished Fellow of the Society of Vascular Surgery, and is a Taubman Scholar. In 2022, Dr. Gallagher was elected into the National Academy of Medicine.
Friday, June 16, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET