Joxel García

Admiral Joxel García
Admiral Joxel García, USPHS former Assistant Secretary for Health
Born	1962 (age 54–55) Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
Years of service	2008–2009
Rank	Admiral
Commands held	Assistant Secretary for Health United States Public Health Service
Awards	Public Health Service Regular Corps Ribbon
Other work	Ponce School of Medicine

Joxel García (born 1962) is a Puerto Rican physician and a former four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. He served as the fourteenth Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from March 13, 2008, to January 20, 2009. He served as the Director of Health in the District of Columbia. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the MD Anderson Cancer Control and Prevention Platform and Member of the Leadership Team of the MD Anderson Moon Shots program.

García was born in 1962 in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and raised in Hatillo, Puerto Rico. His father was a dairy farmer and his mother a housewife and a teacher. He was the oldest boy of five children. He completed his pre-medical studies at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Mayagüez campus. He graduated from the Ponce School of Medicine in 1988. He also received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Hartford. He did his residency in obstetrics and gynaecology at Mount Sinai Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, after being trained as an obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Ponce School of Medicine.

When he finished his residency, he opened his own practice at St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center in Hartford. Since then, he served in several appointed positions at Mt. Sinai, St. Francis, and the University of Connecticut Health Center. For a while after obtaining his M.D. degree, García served as Assistant Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at the Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center in Hartford.