Margaret Galvez, DNP, MBA, MPH, APRN, FNP-C, PHNA-BC

Education:
PhD   Texas Woman’s University, in progress
DNP   Frontier Nursing University
MBA   Marist College
MSN   Frontier Nursing University
MPH   Des Moines University 
BSN    Washburn University 

Work and Education
Dr. Galvez is a board-certified FNP and Graduate Faculty, teaching in the DNP-FNP track. Prior to her nursing career, she was a Biologist for five years in animal pharmaceuticals. Dr. Galvez has taught undergraduate and graduate students in higher education since 2017. She has precepted numerous students and RN’s throughout her nursing career in critical care, emergency room, med-surg, oncology and community health. Her clinical NP background is in Urology, Urogynecology, Infusion medicine, and Gastroenterology.

Committees and Organizations
Dr. Galvez serves on the Graduate Studies Committee, Mentoring Committee, and the Education Technology Committee at Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing. She has served previously as Secretary for Sigma Theta Tau, Eta Omicron Chapter and as a Legislative Ambassador for Texas Nurse Practitioners. Since 2021, she has served as a member of the Des Moines University Alumni MPH Advisory Board. Dr. Galvez remains actively engaged in various organizations at the local, state, and national level.

Research and Presentations
As a DNP to PhD student at Texas Woman’s University, her program of research is focused on addressing health disparities in the needs of Hispanic men in prostate cancer screening and treatment.  Other research interests involve women’s health, caring for the caregiver and vaccine hesitancy. In May 2023, she gave podium and poster presentations internationally in Vietnam at a health conference, in nursing and medical schools regarding HIV pregnant Vietnamese women and provider stigma in HIV treatment. Her DNP Quality Improvement Project: “Improving Safety and Efficiency for Child Vaccinations in an Urban Pediatric Clinic” was featured as an ePoster with Nurse Practitioners Associates Continuing Education (NPACE), 03/2021-06/2023 and offered 0.5 CEUs for APRNs. In 2017, she was selected as the Team Lead of an inaugural team with Texas Health Resources Harris Methodist Fort Worth & Commissioner Roy Brooks Tarrant County Precinct 1, for the Workforce Enhancement in Healthy Aging and Independent Living (We Hail)/Geriatric Practice Leadership Institute (GPLI). The team presented a Quality Improvement Project: “Fall Prevention: Enhancing Awareness”, which was conducted in senior centers with high fall rates. Implementation of the tool proved to be successful and sustainable.

Community 
Dr. Galvez is an active volunteer in her church, local and global community and animal causes. She is a recipient of a 2016 DFW Great 100 Nurse for her efforts in nursing and bridging gaps in community resources and care for underserved communities with Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital. For those efforts, she was also awarded a 2015 Leadership of Excellence Award by the Texas Health Harris Methodist Leadership Triad for connecting patients and resources in the community. A bilingual, bicultural NP, she is committed in the provision of cross-cultural accessible healthcare locally and globally. She has served on global health teams since 2016 to Guatemala, Haiti, and Mexico. She and her husband have often volunteered together on the same global health teams. Her primary goal has always been to serve with compassion and to advocate and empower patients with safe accessible healthcare, no matter where one may live.