Dr. Timothy Tyler is the director of Pharmacy, Lab and Oncology Supportive Care Services at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California. He is responsible for ambulatory oncology care in the main center as well as a satellite on the other end of the Coachella Valley, as well as pain management and medication use in all clinics. He has served in this capacity since 1994. Dr. Tyler is also co-chair of the Complementary Medicine Program and leader of the pain service. He has served as adjunct clinical faculty at the University of Southern California for more than 20 years.
Dr. Tyler received an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the California State University, San Bernardino, and received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He was instrumental in the creation of the pharmacy residency program at Desert Hospital (now Desert Regional Medical Center) in Palm Springs as its first resident in 1993. Dr. Tyler was made a Fellow in the California Society of Health-System Pharmacists (CSHP) in 2002 and in 2017 was made a Fellow in the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA). He has been invited to keynote several healthcare meetings in the past in the US and abroad and continues to be an invited lecturer at meetings for physicians, pharmacists, and nurses around the country and the globe.
Working in a destination for many retirees and "snowbirds" affords Dr. Tyler the ability to see and manage the care of a large number of multiple myeloma patients, and he has been fortunate to share patients with some of the major thought leaders in the myeloma for the past quarter of a century.