Edwin M. Galan, MA, MSN, ARNP, FNP-C

Associate Administrator & Director of Clinical Services

Email: egalan@kumc.edu
913-945-7300

Edwin Galan, MA, MSN, ARNP, FNP-C, is a Captain (retired) in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Most recently, he was the federal Region VII Minority Health Coordinator, working with the state Departments’ of Health for Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri, their Community Based Partners and as the senior minority health advisor to the Regional Health Administrator (KC Region VII), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

He is an advanced practice nurse with over 28 years experience in various areas of health care. This includes over 21 years of federal and active duty service both in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps and the U.S. Public Health Service. He has served as a Team Leader for mental health needs in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina relief work and for United Nations work with the U.S. Secret Service post Sept 11, 2001 in New York City with federal medical teams.

Previously, Galan worked for the Region VII Administrator of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), where he served as a health care facility inspector (surveyor) on compliance with federal mandated regulations and as a technical advisor (project officer) for national quality improvement organizations (QIOs) with the states of Michigan, Kansas, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota. This also entailed being the local CMS point of contact on their initiatives with minority and underserved population groups.

Galan also served in the first Persian Gulf War and in the initial military expedition to Somalia with Operation Restore Hope. Galan has worked many short duty assignments in eight African nations, Europe and in the U.S. for health care and disaster assistance needs. His emergency preparedness and disaster mitigation experience includes many federal and military training modules such as DART (Disaster Assistance Response Teams), various FEMA courses and assignments, regional Emergency Augmentee Coordinator, and others.

A native of Illinois, Ed feels very comfortable in the Midwest and brings first hand knowledge and experience with our state government agencies and partners. Ed speaks fluent Spanish and some French, which he has used in his federal assignments and for public speaking or translations for various health related and population specific needs. Galan’s interests include cultural awareness in primary care practice, care for underserved populations and mentoring students or new health care professionals.

Galan believes in fulfilling his present roles as part of “serving the underserved” and does so with the same tenacious energy that he’s brought to all of his previous duties and roles.