The 2015 season marks Brian Gallagher’s fourth as assistant athletic trainer with the football program.

Gallagher, who worked with the football program from 2011-12, returned to Stanford in 2014 following one year at Maryland, where he served as assistant athletic director for the Terrapins’ sports medicine program.

As the director of sports medicine, Gallagher oversaw the day-to-day operation of the Maryland sports medicine department, including supervising a staff of 17 athletic trainers and eight team physicians, coordinating sports medicine services for Maryland’s 20 athletic teams, and clinically working directly with the Maryland football program.

Gallagher previously was the head football trainer at Toledo from 2009-10.

Prior to his tenure at Toledo, Gallagher served as an assistant athletic trainer at Connecticut, where he worked primarily with the football program from 2005-09.

Gallagher earned his bachelor’s degree in sports medicine and athletic training from West Chester in 2003. He went on to earn a master’s in sport management from Connecticut in 2005.

A native of Archbald, Pennsylvania., Brian resides in Palo Alto with his wife, Samantha.