Dr. Joseph Gallagher, the founder and medical director of the Gallagher Medical Institute (GMI), has been recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in the field of hair transplantation, with over 20 years of experience as a hair restoration surgeon. He is committed to giving his patients the best hair restoration results with the highest level of professional and personalized care.

      In addition to his busy, practice, where he and his associates personally performs all his procedures with there team of assistants, Dr. Gallagher lectures and is frequently featured in the media and press, where he is considered a foremost expert in the field of surgical hair restoration.

       Dr. Gallagher and the Gallagher Medical Institute (GMI) have been recognized by many    Publications and Contemporaries as the Top Doctor and Top Center for Hair Restoration Surgeries.

       The Gallagher Medical Institute specializes in all microscopic Follicular Unit hair-grafting techniques which includes specializing in the repair of prior hair transplants and hair loss in women.  

       Dr. Gallagher performs all consultations at his office personally. He has many patients from throughout the U.S. and internationally, and stresses the importance of establishing a trusting doctor-patient relationship.  

       At GMI, each step of your experience, from the initial consultation, to the actual procedure, and follow-up care, is personally performed by the Doctors. The patients are personally given the Doctor’s cell phone number to call if they have any questions.

In the case of males, distinct and progressive pattern baldness usually starts in the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s and continues briskly for eight to fifteen years. After that, it slows down, but continues at a slow, progressive course for life. It is the result of the interaction of DHT with the susceptible hair follicle. Medications can help to slow or stop the gradual miniaturization (thinning) in male patterns.

Women experience baldness in different patterns than men. However, female baldness can often be treated with the same techniques and with excellent results. Nutrition and hormonal imbalance are more likely to be factors in thinning hair in females. Blood tests will usually be necessary to evaluate these possibilities.

- Class II indicates a progression to the adult or mature hairline that sits a finger’s breath (1.5cm) above the upper brow crease, with some temporal recession. This also does not represent balding.
- Class III is the earliest stage of male hair loss. It is characterized by a deepening temporal recession.
- Class III Vertex represents early hair loss in the crown (vertex).
- Class IV is characterized by further frontal hair loss and enlargement of vertex, but there is still a solid band of hair across top separating front and vertex.
- Class V the bald areas in the front and crown continue to enlarge and the bridge of hair separating the two areas begins to break down.
- Class VI occurs when the connecting bridge of hair disappears leaving a single large bald area on the front and top of the scalp. The hair on the sides of the scalp remains relatively high.
- Class VII patients have extensive hair loss with only a wreath of hair remaining in the back and sides of the scalp.