Joseph Caravalho, Jr. M.D. – 4/17/10
Brigadier General
Brigadier General Joseph Caravalho was born and raised in Kaneohe, Hawaii, and is a 1975 alumnus of St. Louis High School in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 1979, he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Designated an Army ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate, BG Caravalho was first commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Medical Service Corps. He went on to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences School of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, where he received his medical doctorate and was commissioned a Medical Corps Regular Army Captain in 1983.
BG Caravalho’s post-graduate medical training included a transitional Internship, internal medicine residency, and both nuclear medicine and cardiology fellowships. His military training includes the Command and Service Support School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College and the Army War College, the latter from which he received a Master of Strategic Studies.
Clinically, BG Caravalho served as staff internist, nuclear medicine physician, and cardiologist. He served as Chief of Cardiology at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, and as Deputy Commander for Clinical Services at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His operational medical experience includes assignments as Surgeon, 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), Okinawa, Japan; Physician Augmentee, Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg; Surgeon, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia; Deputy Chief of Staff, Surgeon, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg; and most recently as the Assistant Chief of Staff, Health Affairs, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg. He also commanded the 28th Combat Support Hospital and the 44th Medical Command (Rear) (Provisional), both at Fort Bragg. In April 2009, BG Caravalho redeployed from Iraq, where he served as the senior medical officer for both the Multi-National Force-Iraq and the Multi-National Corps-Iraq.
BG Caravalho earned the Special Forces and Ranger tabs and was awarded the Expert Field Medical Badge. He completed the Army Airborne and Flight Surgeon schools, as well as the Navy Dive Medical Officer and SCUBA courses. His individual awards include the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Army Meritorious Service Medal with six oak leaf clusters, Joint and Army Commendation Medals, and the Army Achievement Medal with three oak leaf clusters. He is a recipient of the Order of Military Medical Merit.
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