Dr. Joseph (Adrian) Tyndall, M.D., M.P.H., is the Executive Vice President for Health Affairs and Professor and Dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine. Prior to coming to Morehouse School of Medicine, Dr. Tyndall served as a professor and Chair of the Department of emergency medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine for 13 years before being appointed to the role of interim dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Florida in 2018 and subsequently the Associate Vice President for Strategic and Academic Affairs for UF Health in Gainesville Florida.
Dr. Tyndall was the 13th physician and only African American to lead the college as dean and served in that position for two and a half years. He also was the first African American to be chair of an academic department in the UF College of Medicine’s history and in 2008.
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. In addition, he received his master’s degree in Health Services Management and Health Policy from Columbia University in the City of New York. He served on the Board of Directors of UF Health Shands Hospital at the University of Florida for a decade and was chair of the Board of Trustees for the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute during his tenure as interim dean. He is a past president of the Florida College of Emergency Physicians, is a trustee and president-elect of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation, emergency medicine’s national foundation supporting education and research in emergency care.
He is an elected member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He has published and lectured extensively nationally and internationally in emergency medicine.