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MSM Appoints Dr. Joseph A. Tyndall as Dean and Executive Vice President of Health Affairs Dr. Joseph Adrian Tyndall has been appointed executive vice president for health affairs and dean of Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Tyndall is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the academic programs, as well as executing on the institution’s strategic plan. He will also assume leadership of Morehouse Healthcare and its team of clinicians. Dr. Tyndall joins MSM from the University of Florida College of Medicine where he was a professor of emergency medicine and served as the chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine beginning in 2008. In 2018, he was appointed interim dean of the medical school. “I am thrilled to become a part of the Morehouse School of Medicine, and I look forward to helping further its mission to create and advance health equity,” Dr. Tyndall said. “We will do that by educating and training the next generation of culturally competent clinicians and by increasing access to quality healthcare for the people who need it most. We will focus on discoveries and innovations that connect
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health and healthcare, fortify our outreach, and build partnerships that multiply our impact.” A graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Dr. Tyndall received a master’s degree in health services management and health policy from Columbia University. He is board-certified in emergency medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and an American College of Emergency Physicians Fellow. Dr. Tyndall has conducted research into traumatic and ischemic brain injury and has written extensively and lectured nationally and internationally in the field of emergency medicine. He is an editor of the upcoming 10th edition of emergency medicine’s most authoritative reference textbook, Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. An avid cyclist and an amateur classically trained pianist, Dr. Tyndall is married with three daughters.
MSM Appoints Dr. Walter Conwell as Inaugural Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Experienced Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Leader Assumed Role July 19
Dr. Walter Conwell has joined the Morehouse School of Medicine as its inaugural chief diversity and inclusion officer.
In this new and important role, Dr. Conwell works closely with President Montgomery Rice to develop and implement a comprehensive equity, inclusion, and diversity strategic framework for MSM, as well as support its new partnership with CommonSpirit Health. In Dr. Conwell’s previous role, in which he exhibited the qualities of both a servant-leader and a spirit of partnership, he served as associate dean for equity, inclusion, and diversity for the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. In 2018, Dr. Conwell was the physician director of equity, inclusion, and diversity at Colorado Permanente Medical Group, where he also led the development of an equity, inclusion, and diversity infrastructure covering recruitment, curriculum development, pathway programs, and student support. Dr. Conwell earned his M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and his MBA in health administration from the University of Colorado Business School.
