Megan Meyer, PhD, MSW
Titles
Associate Professor
School Affiliation
School of Social Work
Specialties
Social Work Practice
Sociology
Political Science
About
Phone: 410-706-5635
Email: mmeyer@ssw.umaryland.edu
Megan Meyer, MSW, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore Human Centered Leadership in Health and Human Services Certificate program. Dr. Meyer’s research and publications have been interdisciplinary, spanning the fields of social work, sociology, and political science. She has sought to examine the practices, impacts and challenges of community building and social capital development in Baltimore neighborhoods. Most recently, she had led an interprofessional collaboration with the University of Maryland, Baltimore Schools of Pharmacy and Nursing to build curriculum and continuing professional education to train the health and mental health workforces in the science and practice of psychedelic-assisted therapies. The collaboration has included a survey of social workers and nurses regarding their current knowledge about and desired training needs related to psychedelics and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) (see study details and summary of findings here: https://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/psychedelic-assisted-therapies/ ). Survey results have informed the development of a Continuing Interprofessional Education workshop series titled Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Science and Practice of Psychedelic Therapies (see the website here: https://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/psychedelic-series/). Dr. Meyer has also been a Fellow in the national University Psychedelic Education program (U-PEP), which has brought faculty from across the nation together to build curriculum and training in schools of social work and nursing. Meyer's work in the area of psychedelics has been highlighted in multiple media outlets, including the Baltimore Sun, WYPR's On the Record program and the medical education company Osmosis podcast, Raise the Line. She received her MSW and PhD degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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