Jonathan M. Meyer, M.D.

Biography

Dr. Jonathan Meyer is an assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry at University of California San Diego (UCSD), and a Psychopharmacology Consultant to the California Department of State Hospitals. Dr. Meyer is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, and finished his adult psychiatry residency at Los Angeles County-UCSD Medical Center, where he subsequently completed Fellowships in Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology Research.

In addition to teaching duties at UCSD, he has performed extensive research on the metabolic effects of antipsychotics, and the impact of antipsychotic medications on glucose-insulin homeostasis.

Dr. Meyer has published numerous articles and book chapters on various aspects of antipsychotic psychopharmacology, including the pharmacokinetics of antipsychotics, the metabolic effects of atypical antipsychotics, and health care outcomes in patients with severe mental illness. He is a national speaker on the subject of side effects and metabolic issues surrounding antipsychotic therapy, is Chief Editor of Medical Illness and Schizophrenia, and is author of the chapter on the ‘Pharmacotherapy of Psychosis and Mania’ in Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics.