Education

• University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine 1994-1998
  M.D., June 1998
  
• Point Loma Nazarene University 1990-1994
  B.A., Biology/ Chemistry, Magna Cum Laude, May 1994

Training

• University of Colorado Health Sciences Center 2001-2003
  Fellow, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  
• Oregon Health Sciences University 1999-2001
  Resident, Department of Surgery
  
• Oregon Health Sciences University 1998-1999
  Intern, Department of Surgery

Medical Licensure

• Oregon State Board of Examiners, #LL08721 1999-2001
  
• Colorado State Board of Medical Examiners, #40165 2002-2005
  
• Medical Board of California, #A84081 August, 2003-present
  
• Iowa Board of Medicine, #38653 September, 2009-present

Board Certification

• American Board of Plastic Surgery, #7245 2007

Work Experience

• Aesthetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Orange County, CA 2003-2009
  
• Aesthetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Sioux City, IA Present

Professional Societies

• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons 2011
  
• American Society of Plastic Surgeons 2008
  
• American Society of Bariatric Plastic Surgeons 2010
  
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society 1997
  
• Phi Delta Lambda Honor Society 1994

Honors and Awards

• ASPS Senior Resident’s Conference-Best Congenital Paper 2003
  
• Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges 1993-1994
  
• PLNU President’s Scholar Award (4) 1991-1994
  
• Biology/Chemistry Departmental Award, PLNU (4) 1991-1994
  
• National Hispanic Scholarship Award (2) 1992-1993

Publications

• Verheyden CN, McLaughlin B, Law C, Gallego K, et al. “Through-and-through gunshot wounds to the foot: the “Fearless Fosdick” injury.” Annals of Plastic Surgery, 2005, Vol. 55(5), pp. 474-8.
  
• Cothren CC, Gallego K, et al. “Chest wall reconstruction with acellular dermal matrix (Alloderm) and a latissimus muscle flap.” Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2004, Vol. 114(4), pp. 1015-7.
  
• Toosie K, Gallego K, et al. “Fibrin glue reduces intra-abdominal adhesions to synthetic mesh in a rat ventral hernia model.” American Surgeon, 2000, Vol. 66(1), pp. 41-45.
  
• Shellhammer D, Anstine D, Gallego K, et al. “Reactions of diethylaminosulfur trifluoride with diols.” Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2, 1995, pp. 861-866.
  
• Shellhammer D, Chiaco M, Gallego K, et al. “The fluorination of cyclopentadiene and 3,4-epoxycyclopentene.” Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 1995, Vol. 75, pp. 83-87.