Frederick J. Meyers, Executive Associate Dean, oversees the research, teaching, clinical care and community engagement missions in close coordination with leadership across UC Davis Health System and the larger UC Davis community. Meyers is also the executive director of Medical Education and Academic Planning for the University of California, Merced, where he leads efforts to establish a school of medicine.

A visionary leader, Meyers developed a conceptual model of interprofessional education called UC Davis Schools of Health, which includes the School of Medicine, the master's degree programs in health informatics and public health sciences, and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. He extends the health system's reach through collaborative partnerships with regional, state, national and international organizations and by overseeing high-level recruitments that distinguish UC Davis.

Meyers is a proponent of innovative research. He is a director of the Clinical and Translational Science Center's Research and Education Career Development Program, as well as the Mentored Clinical Research Training Program. He was an active member of the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Award committee. He also chairs the School of Medicine Endowment and Gift Committee and is co-chair of the UC Davis Health System Strategic Planning Committee.

Meyers is a long-time leader of the hospice and palliative care movement in the United States, establishing programs that are now national models for providing compassionate end-of-life care. He was founding director of the School of Medicine's West Coast Center for Palliative Care.

He is well known for his work in "simultaneous care," a model of care that allows cancer patients with advanced disease to receive both investigational treatments and palliative care. Meyers continues research on cancer molecular biology and metastatic cancer, conducting numerous clinical trials on prostate cancer and gene expression in renal cell carcinoma.

A UC Davis faculty member since 1982, Meyers is also a national expert in hematology and oncology, with a special emphasis on the molecular biology of cancer and on clinical trials.

Meyers is a Master of the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London. He serves on the American Cancer Society's California Division Board of Directors. He is also an advisor to Science Translational Medicine.

He has been honored with the prestigious American Hospital Association Circle of Life Award, the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association's Excellence in Palliative Medicine award, and the American Cancer Society's prestigious Lane Adams Quality of Life Award.

His scholarly work includes more than 200 publications, book chapters, editorials and reviews. Most recently, he was published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, Annals of Surgery, the Journal of Oncology Practice, Academic Medicine, and Clinical and Translational Science.

Meyers obtained his medical degree from UC San Francisco School of Medicine and completed his internship and residency training at UC Davis Medical Center. He has board certifications from the American Board of Internal Medicine in hematology, medical oncology, and hospice and palliative medicine.