Mr. Gallagher leads Endeavor Health, Illinois’ third-largest health system, in serving 1.4 million patients across greater Chicagoland. He oversees 28,000 team members delivering personalized, world-class care across more than 300 sites and nine award-winning hospitals, which have earned national recognition from U.S. News & World Report, Leapfrog, CMS, the Magnet recognition program and Planetree. He assumed his current role in 2022 following the merger of NorthShore University Health System and Edward-Elmhurst Health, having previously served as president and CEO of NorthShore since 2017. There, he grew the system through new hospital partnerships, aggressive ambulatory expansion, the creation of Chicagoland’s only freestanding orthopaedic and spine hospital, a transformation of specialty services to a sub-specialty model anchored around key clinical institutes, and the establishment of the nation’s largest primary care-embedded clinical genomics program. Under his leadership, Endeavor Health’s community investment fund has awarded $38.5 million to 59 local partnerships dedicated to enhancing community health and wellbeing, advancing health equity, and supporting local economic growth. Prior to leading NorthShore, Mr. Gallagher served as its COO and as president of Evanston Hospital, and earlier held hospital leadership roles at other health systems. A fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, he serves on the board of trustees of the American Hospital Association and is past chair of the Illinois Health and Hospital Association. He is a member of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago and the Northwell CEO Council, which focuses on gun violence prevention. He also serves as board chair of the Gallagher Foundation, founded by his parents in 2001, which invests in talented young leaders in developing countries through college scholarships and a community of scholars and alumni.
