Joseph (Adrian) Tyndall, M.D., M.P.H., FACEP
Director
Dr. Tyndall has served as a member of our Board of Directors since December 2022. Since July 1, 2021, Dr. Tyndall has been a professor, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean at the Morehouse School of Medicine. Prior to Morehouse School of Medicine, Dr. Tyndall served as a professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida (UF) College of Medicine from 2008 until his departure from UF in 2021. During his tenure at UF, he was appointed interim dean of the College of Medicine from August 2018 to January 2021 and was subsequently appointed to the position of associate vice president for strategic and academic affairs for UF Health in Gainesville, Florida, before his recruitment to Morehouse School of Medicine. He served on the Board of Directors of UF Health Shands Hospital at the University of Florida from 2010 through 2021 and was chair of the Board of Trustees for the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute during his tenure as interim dean. He served on the Board of Directors of the Florida College of Emergency Physicians from 2011 through 2021, serving as the society’s president from 2018 to 2019. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Grady Health System in Atlanta, Georgia. Also, he is a trustee and immediate past president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation, which is emergency medicine’s national foundation supporting education and research in emergency care. Dr. Tyndall is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the emergency medicine residency program at the University of Maryland Medical System, where he served as Chief Resident. He received his master’s degree in Health Services Management and Health Policy from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from The George Washington University. He is an elected member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He is the current president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation and was also recently elected to serve a two-year term on the administrative board of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medical College. He has published and lectured extensively nationally and internationally in emergency medicine and has active research interests in acute brain injury. He is an editor of the 10th edition of a leading textbook in emergency medicine, Rosen’s Emergency Medicine; Concepts and Clinical Practice. Dr. Tyndall’s qualifications to serve on our Board of Directors include his extensive experience with the field of emergency medicine, knowledge of the healthcare industry and medical systems, considerable leadership experience, and deep engagement with topics within health services research.