Dr. Ralph Meyer received his medical degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 1978.  He completed a rotating internship at Ottawa General Hospital and residency training in Internal Medicine (1982) and Hematology (1984) at McMaster University.  He joined the Department of Medicine, McMaster University in 1984 where his academic interests included clinical trials and health services research in the hematologic malignancies.  Dr. Meyer was Professor in the Department of Medicine, Associate Member in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Division Director of Hematology (2000 - 2006) at McMaster University, and Head of Hematology-Oncology at the Juravinski Cancer Centre.  He previously chaired the Hematology Site Committee of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group and the Hematology Disease Site Group, Cancer Care Ontario Practice Guidelines Initiative, and was a co-editor in the Malignant Hematology Group of the Cochrane Collaboration.  Dr. Meyer has previously served on the editorial board of Cancer Treatment Reviews and currently sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In April 2006, Dr. Meyer joined the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group as Director Designate and in 2007 became the Group's Director.  Currently, Dr. Meyer is the Edith Eisenhauer Chair in Clinical Cancer Research, Professor in the Departments of Oncology and Medicine at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and Hematologist at the Kingston General Hospital and Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario.