Email: echo_meyer@med.unc.edu

Phone: (919) 966-3377

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 Publications:

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.