JUAN GALLEGO, MD

Medical Director and Emergency Department Chief, St. Joseph’s Hospital

Dr. Gallego is a Board-Certified Emergency Physician, licensed in the state of Florida and working at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida, since 2007. Born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and raised in South Florida, he has been a Floridian since the age of 3. He graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and obtained his medical degree from Saba University. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at the highly regarded Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center/Sinai-Grace program where he was selected as Chief Resident his third year. He joined EMA in 2007 and became the chair of the Evidence-Based Medicine Committee in 2008. Dr. Gallego became the Director of the hospital-based ED Observation Unit in 2017, Associate Director of the Emergency Department in 2018, and was appointed as the Emergency Department Medical Director and Chief of Department in January 2020. He has worked for the NFL as an unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant since 2013. He is an active member of several hospital committees and has chaired the BayCare ED clinical pathways committee since 2019 and was appointed to EMA’s Board of Directors in 2021.