Professor Rob Galloway is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, working across the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath. He has been a consultant in Emergency Medicine since 2011 and has a longstanding interest in improving patient safety, particularly through human factors, teamwork, communication and better clinical decision-making. He has led and contributed to a wide range of patient-safety, workforce and service-improvement initiatives within the Trust. He also runs human factors and patient-safety courses for University Hospitals Sussex, helping clinical teams understand why errors occur and how healthcare systems can be designed to make safe care easier to deliver.

Alongside his NHS role, Professor Galloway is Honorary Clinical Professor and Head of Undergraduate Emergency Medicine at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. He is proud of his work with medical students and has been involved extensively in undergraduate education, assessment and preparation for clinical practice, with patient safety forming a major theme of his teaching. He has also worked on workforce redesign and other organisational projects within Emergency Medicine. He now works part-time in his NHS role for family reasons while continuing his clinical, teaching and patient-safety work.

Professor Galloway is also Chair of Trustees of Rare People – The Research Charity, a charity established to support research into rare neurodevelopmental conditions and to help develop and fund clinical trials, including trials of repurposed medicines. The charity aims to build the infrastructure needed to turn promising scientific ideas into practical research that may benefit patients and families affected by rare disease.

He was medical director of the Brighton Marathon for 12 years and is medical advisor to BHAFC. He also writes regularly on health and medicine for national press, translating medical evidence and new research for a national audience. Across his clinical, academic, charitable and writing work, his main interests remain patient safety, making healthcare systems work better for patients and staff, and helping people understand medical evidence clearly.