Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of Massachusetts
Dr. Gayle Galletta graduated from Georgetown Medical School in 1997 and completed her emergency medicine residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit in 2000. She a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts.
In 2012, Dr. Galletta was recruited to help establish Norway's first emergency department and was instrumental in getting emergency medicine approved as a primary specialty by the Minister of Health in 2017. She took and passed the first European Board Exam in Emergency Medicine in 2014. In 2019, Dr. Galletta was grandfathered in as one of Norway’s first emergency medicine specialists. Her article, “Emergency Medicine in Norway: The Road to Specialty Recognition” was published in JACEP Open. She has also written and published the white paper on gender equity for the International Federation of Emergency Medicine (IFEM).
Dr. Galletta is on the Board of Directors of the Norwegian Society for Emergency Medicine. She is the lead ambassador to Norway for the American College of Emergency Physicians International Ambassador Program and currently serves as the chair of the IFEM’s Gender Specific Issues Special Interest Group. Dr. Galletta has spoken internationally about emergency medicine specialty implementation in Norway, work-life balance, gender equity, intubation, headache, financial literacy, and healthcare’s effect on the environment.
In her spare time, Gayle competes in endurance races at an international level. She has completed 11 iron distance triathlons, two of them at the World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. She is the mother of three young adults and is passionate about the environment and decreasing healthcare’s carbon footprint.