Patrick Gallagher, MBA, a human resources leader with more than 20 years of experience in higher education and health care sectors, will be joining UMass Chan Medical School as the deputy executive vice chancellor, people strategy. He will begin June 30 and his office will be located on the main Worcester campus.

Since 2022, Gallagher has served as vice president of administrative services and chief administrative officer for Yeshiva University in New York City, the nation’s flagship Jewish university, serving a student population of more than 2,000 undergraduates and 3,500 graduate students across four campuses. There, he managed several departments, including human resources, facilities management, information technology services and institutional project management.

Previously, he spent more than 11 years at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, most recently as assistant vice provost of operations and support services.
Gallagher’s career has been focused on leading initiatives to strengthen and align human resource functions with institutional goals and has worked extensively with executive leadership on matters related to total rewards and the development of data-driven, organizational performance metrics to align rewards with institutional strategies. He is deeply committed to launching initiatives that foster high-performance workplace cultures.

Gallagher has a bachelor's degree in political science and history from Eastern Michigan University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School.

The search committee for this position was led by co-chairs Mary Ahn, MD, vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of psychiatry & behavioral sciences; and Lisa M. Colombo, DNP, MHA, RN, executive vice chancellor for ForHealth Consulting.

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