Rate My Professor Victoria Galloway

Dr. Victoria Galloway is a Clinical Associate Professor and the Program Director of the Berry College Physician Associate Program. She holds a Doctor of Medical Science in Healthcare Leadership and Administration from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, completed in 2022, with her doctoral research examining Emotional Intelligence and its Application to Physician Assistant Student Training. Galloway earned her Master of Science in Physician Assistant and Bachelor of Medical Science, both from Mountain State University in 2004; her master's capstone research and defense focused on Antibiotic Overuse, for which she received the NHSC SEARCH Program award for West Virginia on the topic Antibiotics: Uses and Misuses. She also obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Mary Washington College in 2001. Certified as a Physician Assistant (PA-C) since 2004, she has practiced extensively in rural communities of southwest Virginia, northeast Tennessee, and West Virginia. Her clinical expertise encompasses emergency medicine (2004-2019 at institutions including American Physicians Partners, Team Health/ECC, and Team Health), pediatrics (2008-2009 at Mountain View Pediatrics), inpatient internal medicine as a hospitalist (2006 at Bristol Consultants), and family practice as a volunteer primary care PA at Mel Leaman Free Clinic since 2017.

Galloway entered physician assistant education in 2017, serving as Director of Clinical Education and Principal Faculty (Clinical Assistant Professor) in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at Emory & Henry College School of Health Sciences, Marion, VA, and as Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Education in the MMS-PA Program at Hawai’i Pacific University College of Health & Society, Honolulu, HI. In these roles, she contributed to educational leadership during the clinical phases of developing programs, program accreditation, self-assessment, curriculum development, and implementation. At Emory & Henry, she chaired the founding PA Program Inclusion & Diversity Committee and led committees on student progression, curriculum, policy and procedures, student activities, and faculty search, while serving on admissions. At Hawai’i Pacific University, she participated in PA executive, academic progression, admissions, curriculum, and assessment committees, as well as university budget prioritization. Since 2023 at Berry College, she oversees program leadership, administration, management for accreditation standards, fiscal oversight, clinical site development, didactic and clinical curriculum, self-assessment processes, and faculty and student coaching to cultivate a team-based, student-centered, patient-first culture. Additionally, she serves as adjunct faculty for the Doctor of Medical Science Program at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions and as an expert content reviewer for online medical courses including 12-Lead ECG, Animated Rhythms, 50 Case Study, STEMI Review, and ACLS Prep courses by Vernon R. Stanley, MD, PhD. Her teaching interests include emergency medicine, rural medicine, PA history, professionalism, and ethics in medicine. Galloway maintains memberships in the American Academy of Physician Associates, PA Education Association, Georgia Association of PAs, and PA Foundation – Women in Philanthropy.