William Meurer, M.D, M.S. is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Neurology at the University of Michigan Health System. In addition, he serves as a Medical & Statistical Scientist for Berry Consultants. He works to improve the care of patients with acute neurological disease both through his work on the acute stroke team and as a researcher. His work in the field focuses on the design of clinical trials with adaptive and flexible components. In addition, he is a principal investigator of the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Clinical Trials Methodology Course (http://neurotrials.training) and a co-investigator in the clinical coordinating center of the Strategies to Innovate Emergency Clinical Care Trials (SIREN) network – also funded by NIH). He is principal investigator of NIH funded trials that include an ED based text messaging intervention for hypertension and a cluster randomized trial to improve the care of patients with acute dizziness. He was a co-investigator on the Adaptive Designs Accelerating Promising Treatments into Trials (ADAPT-IT) project, as part of the FDA Advancing Regulatory Science initiative with NIH.

He attended college at the Ohio State University, medical school at the University of Cincinnati, residency at MetroHealth/Cleveland Clinic and then came to Michigan for his stroke fellowship in 2006. During that fellowship he received an M.S. in clinical research design and statistical analysis from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He has authored over 80 original publications (65 original scientific papers) – journals represented include JAMA. He is a core-faculty member for the University of Michigan/St. Joseph Mercy Residency. In addition, he serves clinically both the in the Emergency Department and with the University of Michigan Stroke Team.