Tim Tyler Pharm.D.

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 and includes pain management and medication use in all clinics and has held this position for over 30 years. 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 the past 29 years.

In 2001, during the shift in outpatient reimbursement landscape, Dr. Tyler was appointed to the OPPS Medicare Advisory Panel where he served for 4.5 years, the last two as the chair of the data subcommittee. He has been an advisor to the pharmaceutical industry and also a much sought after speaker on numerous speakers bureaus. He was present at the formation of HOPA (Hematology Oncology Pharmacy Association) and served several terms early on in the capacity of Governmental Affairs Chairman. Recently been involved on the Business Development and Executive Steering Committees of the ATOPP (Advanced Topics for Oncology Pharmacy Professions) meetings that seek to engage KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders) since its early formation in 2020.

Dr. Tyler possesses an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the California State University, San Bernardino and he 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 in 2002 and in 2017 was made a Fellow in the Hematology Oncology Pharmacy Association. He has published numerous articles and review and maintains an editor of pharmacy practice role at JHOP (Journal of Hematology Oncology Pharmacy).

He is a widely sought after lecturer and talks are wide ranging and contain his signature wit and humor, giving approximately 30-40 of them yearly. 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.