John Joyce

John Joyce and his wife, Alice, are both doctors who returned to his hometown of Altoona to establish a dermatology practice and raise their three children.¹ Their work caring for patients in central Pennsylvania spanned more than twenty five years.¹ He has also volunteered at the St. Vincent DePaul Soup Kitchen.¹

A Bishop Guilfoyle High School graduate, he studied at Penn State Altoona and University Park, completing a biology degree in 1979.¹ He earned his medical degree at Temple in 1983, then completed internal medicine and dermatology training at Johns Hopkins, finishing as chief dermatology resident.¹ He subsequently worked with the Navy at Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Virginia during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.¹

Joyce entered Congress in 2019 and serves on Energy and Commerce.¹² A melanoma survivor, he helped introduce the bipartisan SAFE Sunscreen Standards Act.³ Its reforms were incorporated into legislation enacted in November 2025, expanding the evidence and testing approaches FDA can consider when reviewing sunscreen ingredients.⁴ The law retained existing safety and effectiveness standards.⁴

He supports tighter Medicaid eligibility rules, including work requirements, as part of what he describes as protecting the program's integrity.⁵ His campaign emphasizes conservative economic policy, healthcare access and constitutional rights.¹ Democrat Beth Farnham is challenging him again in November.⁶