Dr. Woodrow A. Myers, Jr. is a nationally recognized leader in the development of medical quality initiatives and innovative health-care management programs.

A former health commissioner for the city of New York and the state of Indiana, Dr. Myers is the former executive vice president and chief medical officer of WellPoint, Inc.
At WellPoint, he established the Health Quality Assurance Division.

Dr. Myers is also a director at Stanford University Hospital, Genomic Health, Express Scripts and a visiting adjunct professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine.  He also served as the director of health care management at the Ford Motor Company where he initiated quality assurance metrics for Ford healthcare vendors and established new global health and safety policies to benefit Ford and its employees.

He is a former past chairman of the Visiting Committee for the Harvard School of Public Health and has served as a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and the Stanford University Board of Trustees. Dr. Myers was an assistant professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco and a fellow in critical care medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center. 

While he says that he was an “average student” academically, college for him was a place to learn how to relate to people.  Dr. Myers received a doctor of medicine (M.D.) from Harvard Medical School and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Myers was instrumental in helping to change public perception about HIV/AIDS when he was Indiana’s public health commissioner. In 1984, Ryan White, a hemophiliac, was diagnosed with AIDS at age 13. Though doctors – including Dr. Myers - said White posed no risk to other students, many parents and teachers in Kokomo rallied against his attendance when he tried to return to school. AIDS was poorly understood at the time and Dr. Myers helped to publicly de-stigmatize socializing with people who are living with AIDS.