Tory Meyer, M.D., FACS

Tory Meyer is a affiliate faculty for the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care. He grew up in Chappaqua, New York, and received a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Yale University. After taking a year to work and travel, he attended Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and received his medical degree. Meyer spent the next seven years at the University Hospital in Cincinnati, where he completed a general surgery residency including two years of basic science research in the area of intestinal cytokine production during sepsis. He did his pediatric surgery fellowship and an ECMO fellowship at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati. He is board certified in general surgery and pediatric surgery.

Meyer moved to Austin in 2000 and has been active in multiple Dell Children’s Medical Center committees including the Peer Review Committee; the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, serving as the surgical champion; and the Department of Pediatric Surgery Council of which he is a former chairman. He is the present chief of staff of Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas. His surgical interests include laparoscopy, thoracoscopy and surgical oncology. He is a member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the American College of Surgeons, the Texas Medical Association and the Travis County Medical Society.