Earl Joyner

Earl Joyner serves as Medical Director of DR Medical Associates in Douglasville. He holds a bachelor's degree from 1979 and an MD from 1983, both from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed the first portion of a residency at Providence Hospital in Washington, DC, from 1983 to 1985, then trained in internal medicine at Mercy Catholic Medical Center in Philadelphia from 1985 to 1987. Before 1991 he worked with the Public Health Service's NHSC in Orangeburg, South Carolina. From 1991 to 2008 he ran a private internal medicine practice in Griffin and Atlanta, Georgia. In 1996 he was named physician for the District 4 Ryan White HIV program, and in 1999 he took on the role of HIV specialist and staff physician at the Fulton County Jail. In 2008 he became Medical ID Director on an Alabama DOC contract that provides chronic care to HIV patients in Alabama prisons. He later worked in a telemedicine role before becoming the practice's Medical Director. He was featured in the 2012 PBS Frontline documentary Endgame: AIDS in Black America.