Thomas H. Gallagher, MD

Professor

Medicine

Professor

Bioethics and Humanities

Associate Chair, Department of Medicine, Patient Care Quality, Safety and Value

Director, UW Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety

Faculty Information

Biography

Education & Training:

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

1990

Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine

Barnes Hospital, Washington University

St. Louis, MO

1990–1993

Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa

1986

Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program

1993–1995

Milton W. Hamolsky Junior Faculty Award

1996

SGIM Initial Mentorship Award

2000

Samuel L. Goldstein Leadership Award in Medical Student Education

2001

David E. Rogers Junior Faculty Education Award

2002

Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars in Bioethics Award

2003

Marion E. Smith Junior Faculty Research Award

2003

SGIM Best Published Research Paper of the Year

2004

Fellow, American College of Physicians

2004

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research

2008

SGIM Physician-Investigator of the Year Award

2008

President, Society of General Internal Medicine Northwest Region

2009

Elected to 3-Year Term on Council, Society of General Internal Medicine

2010

Contact

Email:

thomasg@uw.edu [3]

Research & Clinical Interests

Research Interests:

Ethical and communication issues in conflicts of interest
Research ethics
Disclosure of medical errors and adverse events

Publications

PubMed:

PubMed Bibliography [4]

Publications:

Gallagher TH, St Peter RF, Chesney M, Lo B. 2001. Patients' attitudes toward cost control bonuses for managed care physicians [5]. Health affairs (Project Hope). 20(2):186–92.
Gallagher TH, Waterman AD, Ebers AG, Fraser VJ, Levinson W. 2003. Patients' and physicians' attitudes regarding the disclosure of medical errors [6]. JAMA. 289(8):1001–7.
Gallagher TH, Garbutt JM, Waterman AD, Flum DR, Larson EB, Waterman BM, Dunagan CW, Fraser VJ, Levinson W. 2006. Choosing your words carefully: How physicians would disclose harmful medical errors to patients [7]. Archives of internal medicine. 166(15):1585–93.
Gallagher TH, Studdert D, Levinson W. 2007. Disclosing harmful medical errors to patients [8]. The New England Journal of Medicine. 356(26):2713–9.
Gallagher TH. 2009. A 62-year-old woman with skin cancer who experienced wrong-site surgery: Review of medical error [9]. JAMA. 302(6):669–77.
Dudzinski DM, Hébert PC, Foglia MB, Gallagher TH. 2010. The disclosure dilemma: Large-scale adverse events [10]. The New England journal of medicine. 363(10):978–86.