15th Annual Celebrating Diversity 2022

Dean’s Alumni Award for Diversity and Inclusion
Joseph (Adrian) Tyndall, MD, MPH,
is the Executive Vice President for
Health Affairs and Professor and Dean
of the Morehouse School of Medicine.
Prior to joining Morehouse School of
Medicine, Dr. Tyndall served as
Professor and Chair of the Department
of Emergency Medicine at the
University of Florida College of
Medicine for 13 years before being
appointed as 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.
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 Center. 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.
Dr. Tyndall 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