Dr. Joseph Galati

Founder, Liver Specialists of Texas

Dr. Joseph S. Galati is a native of Long Island, New York. He received his undergraduate degree at Syracuse University and attended St. George’s University School of Medicine. After completion of his fellowship training, Dr. Galati relocated to Houston, Texas in 1994 joining the faculty at University of Texas Medical School-Houston.

In 1996, he became Medical Director of Transplant Hepatology at University of Texas Medical School. During the spring of 1999, Dr. Galati left his full-time position at the University of Texas Medical School to form a private practice with most of his University colleagues.

He was also named Medical Director of the newly formed St. Luke’s Texas Liver Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas. In the spring of 2001, he formed his current practice, Liver Specialists of Texas, one of America’s largest private liver services.

Dr. Galati is President of the Texas International Endoscopy Center, a state of the art endoscopy facility where gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures are performed by Texas Medical Center physicians.