Dr. Caravalho has led The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF) as its President and CEO since 2017. In this role, Dr. Caravalho guides the strategic vision for HJF, its subsidiaries, and global workforce in pursuit of its Congressionally mandated mission to advance military medicine.

Prior to joining HJF, then MG (Dr.) Caravalho culminated his military career as the Joint Staff Surgeon, where he served as the senior medical advisor 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. 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.

Dr. Caravalho is currently a member of both the Wounded Warrior Project Board of Directors and the Gonzaga University Board of Trustees.