Joe A. Galvan, JD, MBA

Biography

Joe Galvan is the Deputy Chief Legal Officer—Healthcare for UTRGV. Since 2017 he has served as primary legal counsel for the UTRGV School of Medicine and the Division of Health Affairs. Joe has over two decades of experience working in university health science centers and providing advice and counsel on complex legal issues affecting academic medical centers and teaching hospitals. He previously served as Associate Vice President and Deputy Chief Legal Officer for The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston where he managed the day-to-day operations of the Department of Legal Affairs. He also served as Managing Counsel for Health Affairs at Texas A&M University System, serving as counsel to Texas A&M Health Science Center.

Joe earned his law degree from The University of Texas School of Law and his MBA from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Deputy Chief Legal Officer of Healthcare

• Provide accurate, knowledgeable, and timely legal advice based on experience, research and analysis on a broad range of regulatory/compliance, transactional, and litigation-related issues arising in medical and allied health education and related clinical practices, and on UTRGV’s affiliations with external group practices and hospitals (including without limitation, Stark and Anti-Kickback; HIPAA; physician reimbursement including governmental and private payers; accreditation-related issues; false claims; tax; antitrust; tissue and organ transplantation; collections; risk management; privacy-related issues, and investigation and management of potentially compensable events and medical malpractice claims).
• Ensure all aspects of UTRGV’s medical and allied health clinical practices meet applicable regulatory requirements.
• Draft and review legal documents including without limitation contracts, memoranda of law, policies, procedures and litigation-related documents.
• Support and provide legal advice for strategic planning, development and maintenance of clinical operations for the School of Medicine.
• Organize, plan, prioritize, and review work product of supervised employee(s); offer guidance to supervised employee(s).