MG Joseph Caravalho, USA (Ret.)

Dr. Caravalho leads HJF as President and CEO, joining in 2017. In this role, Dr. Caravalho guides the strategic vision for HJF, its subsidiaries, and its global workforce in pursuit of its vital mission to advance military medicine.

Prior to joining HJF, then MG (Dr.) Caravalho served as the Joint Staff Surgeon at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. He was the Chief Medical Adviser to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, providing recommendations to the Chairman, the Joint Staff, and Combatant Commanders on a wide range of medical and readiness issues.

Before becoming Joint Staff Surgeon, he was Army Deputy Surgeon General and Deputy Commanding General (Support) of the US Army Medical Command. During his Army career, Dr. Caravalho held clinical positions as a staff internist, nuclear medicine physician, and cardiologist.

For 38 years, he served the US Army in various leadership positions, including Commanding General of the Southern Regional Medical Command and Brooke Army Medical Center, the Northern Regional Medical Command, and the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick in Maryland.

Dr. Caravalho graduated with a medical doctorate from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences School of Medicine in 1983. He also has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Gonzaga University and a master’s degree in strategic studies from the Army War College. In 2019 he received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Gonzaga University.