Narrative Biosketch for William A. Meyer III, Ph.D., D(ABMM), MLS (ASCP)CM Dr. Meyer is a Medical and Technical Laboratory Consultant to the entire Quest Diagnostics organization. He also functions as the scientific medical consultant for the numerous NIH and CDC-funded laboratory testing-based research studies that come to Quest Diagnostics. 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 in Medical and Public Health Virology. Dr. Meyer initiated the Clinical Virology testing service at Maryland Medical Laboratory, Inc. (a forerunner institution to Quest Diagnostics’ Baltimore regional laboratory) in 1982. He has co-authored more than 200 laboratory-based, research publications/conference abstracts dealing with Infectious Disease diagnosis, management and disease progression.