Dr. Gallagher is originally from Sacramento, CA but also claim the Northeast as her own, as she spent her early childhood in Boston, MA and undergraduate years at Dartmouth College. She studied political science, played collegiate soccer and met her husband John, an Oregonian, who introduced her to the beautiful PNW. With their two young daughters and rescue pup, Baker, they have called Portland home for 8 years. Dr. Gallagher enjoys regular trips to the zoo, picnics in the Rose Garden, road-trips to Cannon Beach, leisurely afternoons wandering Powell’s books and long walks/runs through her SW neighborhood. As a medical student passionate about women’s health and education, Dr. Gallagher conducted various cost-effectiveness analyses in operative vaginal deliveries. She also worked as an instructor for Saturday Academy, taught her own acute care curriculum to Portland area high-school students.