Tyler Cymet

Born in New York and raised in Israel and Florida, Tyler is the son of a serial entrepreneur and a hotel manager. He graduated from High School at 15 and started Community College and worked prior to going to college full time at Emory University in Atlanta where he received degrees in Anthropology, Psychology and Hebrew Language.

Tyler trained in Internal Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.  He received his medical degree from the Nova Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine and did a research fellowship at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Tyler loved taking care of people and teaching.  He taught in 48 states and started teaching sites in Egypt (the Armed Forces College of Medicine-Egypt), China (GME with IPCEA) Nicaragua, and Guatemala (as National President of DOcare International). 

After training, Tyler chose Baltimore as the place to settle and stop his wandering.  He worked at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and set up the first managed care program for that hospital, and held numerous roles overseeing and managing other physicians care and in utilization review, quality, and safety departments.

In 2001 Tyler saw and care for some of the first victims of the Postal Anthrax Attack that sickened many in the Maryland/DC area.  For two years he cared for the victims of that bioterror event and became involved in policy working through MedChi to determine who would provide care, how it would be paid for, and determining the natural history of this new disease.

Erondu-Cymet Syndrome caused by a translocation on gene 21 was first described by Tyler and a student of his Ugochi Erondu.

His research in musculoskeletal medicine shifted to disaster medicine.  And in 2008 he moved to a policy and education position working with osteopathic medical schools at the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine.  In that position he worked to standardize what was taught at medical schools across America and instituted programs in objective assessment so that there was a single standard for those practicing medicine.  He also worked extensively with the US Military on financing of medical education. 

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dr. Cymet took time off from teaching to serve as the Medical Director for the Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital.

The author of 8 books, and over a hundred research articles, and hundreds of newspaper articles, Tyler was an early adopter of the internet and video for teachingand technology aided medical care.  In addition to educational videotaping he wrote and appeared in numerous medically related television shows like the Dr. Know Show and Untold Stories of the ER. 

Besides Anthrax, HPV, and Lipid issues, Tyler also studied and wrote about common maladies of life that intrigued him like fingernail findings in health and disease, hiccups, hair graying, itching and others. 

In 2014 as President of MedChi, Tyler introduced inter-professional activities, and put together a Blue Ribbon Commission of Experts to explore the future of healthcare and the role of Physicians in the evolving healthcare system.  He continued to work with the AMA on issues related to medical education and was involved in negotiating the unification of different systems of graduate medical education in the United States and the creation of a single graduate education standard. 

Tyler is married to the former Holly Berkovits, PhD Biophysicist and is the father of Ilana Cymet.