William (bill) F. Galvin MSEd, RRT, CPFT, AE-C, FAARC

William F. Galvin is an Assistant Professor in the Frances M. Maguire School Nursing and Health Professions, Program Director for the Respiratory Care Program, and a member of the teaching and administrative faculty for the TIPS (Teacher Improvement Project System) Program at Gwynedd Mercy University. He has been a respiratory therapist for over 40 years and has been on faculty at GMercyU since December of 1981. He holds an administrative and teaching faculty position for the TIPS Program (Teacher Improvement Project System), a national program designed to prepare practicing health care professionals to assume roles as clinical and classroom teachers. Additionally, he teaches in the Bachelor of Health Science Degree Program.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree in political science from La Salle College and his Master’s degree in Education (with a concentration in Health) from St. Joseph’s University. He is a registered and certified respiratory therapist, certified pulmonary function technologist, and certified asthma educator. He has significant publishing experience. He has provided numerous article reviews, abstracts, and contributing chapters for such publishing companies as; Springhouse Corporation, Delmar/ Cengage Learning, FA Davis, CV Mosby, Williams and Wilkins, WB Saunders/ Elsevier, and Jones and Bartlett Learning.

Galvin has presented at the local, state, and national level on topics such as communication skills, wellness, health promotion, disease prevention, patient education, interviewing and assessment skills, programmatic and regional accreditation, outcome assessment, recruitment and retention, test-taking strategies, and techniques and a variety of student survival topics and concepts related to the art of teaching and learning.