Austin Garig Meyer
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Austin Garig Meyer
Faculty
Positions
- Faculty
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School of Medicine - Temple
Baylor College of Medicine
- Adult and Pediatric Hospitalist
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Baylor Scott and White
Temple, TX
- Statistical Editor
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Pediatrics Open Science - American Academy of Pediatrics
Addresses
- McLane Children's Hospital (Hospital)
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Temple, TX 76502
United States
- McLane Children's Hospital (Office)
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Temple, TX 76502
United States
Education
- MD from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
- Lubbock, TX
- PhD from University of Texas at Austin
- Austin, TX
- Biochemistry
- MS from Georgia Institute of Technology
- Atlanta, GA
- Analytics
- MPH from University of North Texas Health Science Center
- Fort Worth, TX
- MS from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
- TX, Lubbock
- Biotechnology
Professional Interests
- Adult & Pediatric hospital medicine
- Bedside teaching / EBM education
- Infectious disease epidemiology
- Machine learning
- Outbreak forecasting
- Computational virology
- Biostatistics & statistical editing
- Global health
- HIV medicine
- AI / LLM in healthcare
- Trainee mentorship
- Multidisciplinary quantitative science
- Clinical decision-support application development
- Data-visualization & computational tools for education & research
- Open source software development
Websites
Selected Publications
- AG Meyer, F Lu, L Clemente, M Santillana "A prospective real-time transfer learning approach to estimate Influenza hospitalizations with limited data." Epidemics. 2025;100816.
- Mathis SM, Webber AE, León TM, Murray EL, Sun M, White LA, Brooks LC, Green A, Hu AJ, Rosenfeld R, Shemetov D, et al. "Evaluation of FluSight influenza forecasting in the 2021–22 and 2022–23 seasons with a new target laboratory-confirmed influenza hospitalizations." Nature communications. 2024;6289.
- Iyengar V, Meyer A, Stedman E, Casale S, Kalsi S, Hale AJ, Freed JA "A Predictive Algorithm for Discriminating Myeloid Malignancies and Leukemoid Reactions." The American journal of medicine. 2024;137:658-665.
- Kachroo AH, Laurent JM, Yellman CM, Meyer AG, Wilke CO, Marcotte EM "Systematic humanization of yeast genes reveals conserved functions and genetic modularity." Science. 2015;348:921-925.
- Barrick JE, Colburn G, Deatherage DE, Traverse CC, Strand MD, Borges JJ, Knoester DB, Reba A, Meyer AG "Identifying structural variation in haploid microbial genomes from short-read resequencing data using breseq." BMC Genomics. 2014;15:1-7.
- Jack BR, Meyer AG, Echave J, Wilke CO "Functional sites induce long-range evolutionary constraints in enzymes." PLOS Biology. 2016;14:e1002452.
- Meyer AG, Wilke CO "Integrating sequence variation and protein structure to identify sites under selection." Molecular Biology and Evolution.;30:36-44.
- Meyer AG, Wilke CO "Geometric constraints dominate the antigenic evolution of influenza H3N2 hemagglutinin." PLOS Pathogens. 2015;11:e1004940.
- Meyer AG, Dawson ET, Wilke CO "Cross-species comparison of site-specific evolutionary-rate variation in influenza haemagglutinin." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.;368:20120334.
- Meyer AG, Spielman SJ, Bedford T, Wilke CO "Time dependence of evolutionary metrics during the 2009 pandemic influenza virus outbreak." Virus Evolution.;1:vev006.
Funding
- Multivariate transfer learning and probabilistic optimization to improve and extend machine learning forecasts in respiratory virus hospitalizations - #1L70AI194328-01
- $100,000.00 ( 07/01/2025 - 06/30/2027 ) Grant funding from NIH - LRP
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