Email

ameyer@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Medicine- Health Services Research
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Cognitive Psychologist

Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Department of Veteran Affairs
Houston, Texas United States

Co-Director

VA Patient Safety Center of Inquiry- Diagnosis Improvement Safety Center (DISCovery)
Department of Veteran Affairs
Houston, Texas United States

Education

Research Fellowship at Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Academic Affiliations

08/2013 - Houston, Texas United States

Health Services Research

PhD from Rice University

05/2011 - Houston, Texas United States

Cognitive Psychology/Neuroscience

MA from Rice University

01/2009 - Houston, Texas United States

Cognitive Psychology/Neuroscience

BS from Texas Lutheran University

05/2005 - Seguin, Texas United States

Psychology

Honors & Awards

2nd Annual Early Career IQuESt Faculty Research Award

IQuESt (01/2019 - 12/2019)

Health System Impact Award

National VA Award that honors research that has had a direct and important impact on clinical practice or policy within the VA healthcare system. Awarded to Dr. Hardeep Singh and the Houston VA Patient Safety Center Team for our research on improving patient safety in VA primary care.

VA (01/2016 - 12/2016)

Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award in Educational Research

BCM (08/2021)

Professional Interests

• Understanding physician cognition related to diagnostic decision-making
• Improving diagnostic decision-making and reducing diagnostic errors
• Understanding the role that Health Information Technology (HIT) plays in improving or worsening diagnostic accuracy
• Metacognition
• Research methods and quantitative analysis

Websites

Selected Publications

• Meyer, AND, Giardina, TD, Khawaja, L, & Singh, H "Patient and clinician experiences of uncertainty in the diagnostic process: Current understanding and future directions." Patient Educ Couns. 2021 Jul;104(11):2606-15. Pubmed PMID: 34312032
• Meyer AND, Giardina TD, Spitzmueller C, Shahid U, Scott TMT, Singh H "Patient perspectives on the usefulness of an artificial intelligence-assisted symptom checker: Cross-sectional survey study." J Med Internet Res. 2020 Jan 30;22(1):e14679. Pubmed PMID: 32012052
• Meyer AND, Giardina TD, Khanna A, Bhise V, Singhal GR, Street RL, Singh H "Pediatric clinician perspectives on communicating diagnostic uncertainty." Int J Qual Health Care. 2019 Nov 30;31(9):G107-12. Pubmed PMID: 31322679
• Singh H, Khanna A, Spitzmueller C, Meyer AND "Recommendations for using the Revised Safer Dx Instrument to help measure and improve diagnostic safety." Diagnosis. 2019 Nov 26;6(4):315-23. Pubmed PMID: 31287795