John D. Meyer MD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Degrees, Universities Attended

• MD, Cornell University Medical College
• MPH, Boston University School of Public Health

Brief Chronology of Professional Career

Dr. Meyer is assistant professor and assists in coordinating the NIOSH-funded residency training program in occupational medicine within the DOEM. He joined the UConn faculty in 2001 after having directed the residency program at West Virginia University and following a three-year appointment at the University of Manchester in England, where he was engaged in national occupational surveillance programs to measure the extent of work-related illness.
His current areas of interest are in the evaluation and prevention of occupational hazards in pregnant and fertile women, and clinical evaluation of work-related upper extremity disorders. He is also active in resident training and education, having served as the chair of the Occupational Medicine Residency Directors Association from 1997 to 1999, and also serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC).
For his work in multidisciplinary training of residents and safety professionals and his role in developing distance learning opportunities in West Virginia and Appalachia, Dr. Meyer was awarded the American College of Preventive Medicine's "Rising Star" award in 1998. He has recently been awarded a training grant through the UConn Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health for the evaluation of occupational risks for preterm delivery and low-birth-weight infants.

Courses Taught in MPH Program

• Occupational Epidemiology
• Occupational Disease

Major Research Interests

Surveillance for work-related illness and injury, occupational reproductive hazards, epidemiology of occupational diseases, and physician training on occupational medicine.

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

• Meyer JD. Noise-induced Hearing Loss. in McCunney RJ, ed. A Practical Approach to Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2nd edition. Boston. Little, Brown & Co. 2003.
• Martin CJ, Meyer JD. Bacteria. in Wald P, Stave G, eds. Physical and Biological Hazards of the Workplace. Philadelphia. 2nd edition. John Wiley. 2001.
• Meyer JD. Occupational Tuberculosis. in Couturier A, ed. Occupational and Environmental Infectious Diseases. Beverly, MA. OEM Press. 2000.
• McCunney, RJ, Meyer JD. Occupational Exposure to Noise. in Rom W, ed. Environmental and Occupational Medicine. 3rd edition. Philadelphia. Lippincott-Raven. 1998.

Scientific Articles

• Meyer JD, Chen Y, McDonald JC, Cherry NM. Surveillance for work-related hearing loss in the UK: OSSA and OPRA 1997-2000. Occup Med. 2002; 52: 75-79
• Adisesh A, Meyer JD, Cherry NM. Prognosis and work absence due to occupational contact dermatitis: Outcome of cases reported to EPIDERM. Contact Dermatitis. 2002; 46: 273-9
• Chen Y, Meyer JD, Song J, McDonald JC, Cherry N. A reliability assessment of a coding scheme for physical risk factors in work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Scand J Work Environ Health. 2002; 28: 232-7
• Meyer JD, Cherry NM, Holt D, Chen Y, McDonald JC. SWORD '99: Surveillance of work-related and occupational respiratory disease in the UK. Occup Med. 2001; 51: 204-8
• Cherry NM, Meyer JD, Chen Y, Holt DL, McDonald JC. The reported incidence of work-related musculoskeletal disease in the UK: MOSS 1997-2000. Occup Med. 2001 51: 450-455
• McDonald JC, Meyer JD, Holt DL, Chen Y, Cherry NM. Disease surveillance by occupational physicians. Occ Health Rev. April 2001; 10-14
• Meyer JD, Chen Y, Holt DL, Beck MH, Cherry NM. Occupational contact dermatitis in the UK: A surveillance report from EPIDERM and OPRA. Occup Med. 2000; 50: 265-273
• Cherry NM, Meyer JD, Holt DL, Chen Y, McDonald JC. Surveillance of work-related diseases by occupational physicians in the UK: OPRA 1996-99. Occup Med. 2000; 50: 496-503
• Cherry N, Meyer JD, Adisesh A, Brooke R, Owen-Smith V, Swales C, Beck MH. Surveillance of occupational skin disease: EPIDERM and OPRA. Br J Dermatol 2000; 142:1128-34
• Meyer JD, Holt D, Cherry NM, McDonald JC. SWORD '98: Surveillance of work-related and occupational respiratory disease in the UK. Occup Med. 1999; 49: 486-489
• Meyer JD, Becker PE, Stockdale T, Ducatman AM. The West Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Initiative: A new model for occupational medicine residency training in a new marketplace. Am J Prev Med 1999; 16: 347-350
• Meyer JD, Muntaner C. Injuries in home health care workers: An analysis of occupational morbidity from a state compensation database. Am J Ind Med 1999; 35: 295-301
• Muntaner C, Nieto FJ, Cooper L, Meyer J, Szklo M, Tyroler HA. Occupational stress and atherosclerosis; Findings from the ARIC study. Am J Prev Med 1998; 14: 9-18
• Meyer JD, Islam SI, Ducatman AM, McCunney RJ. Pulmonary opacifications in populations unexposed to dusts: A literature analysis and review. Chest. 1997; 111: 404-410

Contact Information

John D. Meyer, MD, MPH
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue, MC 6210
Farmington, CT 06030-6210
Phone (860) 679-4947
Fax (860) 679-1349
Email meyer@uchc.edu