Dr. David Meyers Bio

David Meyers, MD, MPH, a retired professor of cardiology and preventive medicine at KU School of Medicine, has been interested in civil war history since childhood.  He spent two years in Richmond, VA studying the war (and cardiology at the Medical College of Virginia). Dr. Meyers has published 143 medical research papers, several medical book chapters, a book reviewing 134 KC restaurants (published in 2003 - most have since closed), and is finishing a book on the 17 military hospitals in St. Louis during the civil war. He joined the Omaha Civil War Roundtable in 1981 and the KC CWRT in 1995 (with a ten-year hiatus with the St. Louis CWRT).  He has been a medical re-enactor since 1990 - innocently declining the lead part in the second scene of "Dances With Wolves" to his regret.  Dr. Meyers was a founding member of the Society of Civil War Surgeons and has lectured widely on Civil War Medicine.