Echo Meyer, Ph.D.

Email:  echo_meyer@med.unc.edu

Office Phone:  (919) 966-3377

Office Fax:  (919) 843-6102

Education:

B.A., Emory University

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Boston

Student, Laboratory of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, EK Shriver Center

Trainee, Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance: Harvard Medical School

Research Coordinator, Neurobehavioral Teratology Lab, UMASS Boston

Intern, Community Child Mental Health, UNC Department of Psychiatry-AHEC

Fellow, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, Division TEACCH

Fellow, Pediatric Psychology, Psychiatry: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Summary Statement:

Dr. Meyer is a faculty member in the Pediatric Psychology/Psychiatry Consultation & Liaison Program, with a joint appointment in Pediatrics.  She works with children and adolescents hospitalized in the UNC Children’s Hospital who are dealing with issues of adaptation and coping with medical illness and injury.  Dr. Meyer’s professional and research interests include understanding the ways in which a family’s conceptualization of illness and parent child communication impact quality of life and compliance in the juvenile diabetes population.  Her background includes an emphasis on developmental disabilities, including autism and Asperger’s syndrome, and she continues to attend to the specialized needs of individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders who are further challenged by medical or psychiatric illness.

Representative Work:

1. Meyer, E. Diabetes During Childhood: Issues of Adjustment and Intervention. Presented most recently at the North Carolina Psychiatry Association Annual Meeting and Scientific Session, Sept. 2008.
2. Meyer, E. Self and disease management efficacy in children and adolescents with Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus: Link to risk and adherence behaviors. Research project ongoing, UNC Children’s Diabetes Outpatient Clinics.
3. Joseph, R., Meyer, E., Tager-Flusberg, H. Self-Ordered Pointing in Children with Autism: Failure to Use Mediation in the Service of Working Memory? Neuropsychologia 43 (2005) 1400–1411.
4. Adams J, Baer S, Gavin JAL, Janulewicz PA, Meyer E, Lammer EJ. Neuropsychological characteristics of children embryonically exposed to isotretinoin (Accutane®): outcome at age 10. Neurotoxicol Teratol.2001;23:296.