Director
Quest Diagnostics
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William A. Meyer III, PhD, Medical Science Liaison, Quest Diagnostics
Narrative Biosketch for William A. Meyer III
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William A. Meyer III, Ph.D., D(ABMM), MLS (ASCP)CM
Director, Medical Science Liaison, Infectious Diseases/Immunology
Technical Director- Quest Diagnostics, East Region
Dr. Meyer holds a Director level position as a Medical Science Liaison in Infectious Diseases/Immunology for the entire Quest Diagnostics organization. He also has technical and consultative responsibility for the Clinical Pathology services provided in the Virology/Mycology/Molecular Biology areas provided by the Quest Diagnostics NY/NJ facility. He also functions as the Technical Director for the numerous NIH and CDC-funded laboratory testing services associated with the HIV-related research studies that come to Quest Diagnostics-Baltimore.
He graduated first in his class from Loyola College in 1977 with a B.S. degree in Medical Technology and attended the Mercy Hospital Medical Technology (MT) Program. He obtained his MT ASCP certification in 1977. He received several academic scholarships to attend the graduate program at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, Dept of Medical Microbiology and Immunology. He received his Ph.D. degree from that institution in 1982. In 2005, Dr. Meyer became a Diplomate in the American Board of Medical Microbiology.
He has co-authored more than 185 laboratory-based, research publications/conference abstracts dealing with Infectious Disease diagnosis, management and disease progression.
Dr. Meyer currently serves as Chair of the NIH AIDS Program Virology Quality Assessment Advisory Board and is a long-standing member of the NIH Men’s and Women’s Combined HIV Cohort Study Laboratory Committee.
Dr. Meyer has served as a CLIA Laboratory Director for a Rapid Response Laboratory in Martinsburg, WV from 2015-2019.
Dr. Meyer has presented invited lectures in Virology at the Mayo Clinic and the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology national conventions. He has served on several CDC sponsored committees for HIV and HCV diagnostics.
