Assistant Professor Michael Meyer

Michael Meyer, MS, ATC

Mike is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Science and Sport Studies at California University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he is the head athletic trainer with the Men’s Basketball team.

Professor Meyer received his bachelor’s degree in athletic training from Waynesburg College in May of 1997. After graduating, he was employed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Medicine Center where he was the head athletic trainer at Albert Gallatin High School. Meyer received his master’s degree in physical education with an emphasis in athletic training from Ohio University in Athens, OH (2001).

After receiving his master’s, Meyer worked as an assistant athletic trainer at Bloomsburg University. He was primarily responsible for medical coverage of the men’s basketball program, baseball program, and soccer program.

In 2003, Meyer became the head athletic trainer for the men’s basketball team at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. In March, 2006 he was credited with saving the life of a student athlete who collapsed as a result of cardiac arrest during practice. This event lead Meyer to serve on several committees/organizations such as the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Inter-Association Task Force on Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Athletes; the Nashville/Davidson County Public Access of Defibrillator (PAD) program; and the American Red Cross – Crossing Paths program of Middle Tennessee. Meyer has become an advocate for automated external defibrillators (AED) in public facilities. He led a project resulting in the purchase of 10 additional AEDs for public access on Vanderbilt’s Athletic Campus as well as presenting at the national, state, and local levels regarding the importance of early access to AEDs.

Meyer is a member of the NATA, Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Society, and has been a PA licensed athletic trainer since 2001.

A native of Johnstown, PA, Meyer now resides in Bentleyville, PA with his wife Kris, son Brennan, and daughter Kami.